Gold nanoclusters, consisting of a few to several hundred Au atoms with a core size below 2
nm, have attracted worldwide attention in the biomedicine because of their supernormal …

Advantages such as strong signal strength, resistance to photobleaching, tunable
fluorescence emissions, high sensitivity, and biocompatibility are the driving forces for the …

Potential of hydrogen (pH) is one of the most relevant parameters characterizing aqueous
solutions. In biology, pH is intrinsically linked to cellular life since all metabolic pathways are …

Ionic liquids (ILs) have many attractive properties. For example, their physical and chemical
properties can be tuned by a judicious design of the cations and anions, making them ideal …

Fluorescent gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) are emerging as novel fluorescent materials and
have attracted more and more attention in the field of biolabeling, biosensing, bioimaging …

As a kind of promising nanomaterials, metal nanoclusters (MNCs) generally composed of
several to hundreds of metal atoms have received increasing interest owing to their unique …

Gold (Au) nanoclusters with diameters less than 2 nm are attracting increasing attention due
to their unique size-dependent physicochemical properties which include strong …

The use of protein templates for the controlled synthesis of inorganic nanostructures has
gained considerable attention in multidisciplinary fields, including electronics, optics …

Among the many biological entities employed in the development of biosensors, enzymes
have attracted the most attention. Nanotechnology has been fostering excellent prospects in …

DNA methylation is the predominant epigenetic modification that participates in many
fundamental cellular processes through posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression …