Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Photoresponsive DNA materials and their applications

C Wang, MP O'Hagan, Z Li, J Zhang, X Ma… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoresponsive nucleic acids attract growing interest as functional constituents in materials
science. Integration of photoisomerizable units into DNA strands provides an ideal handle …

Synthesis, assembly, optical properties, and sensing applications of plasmonic gap nanostructures

JM Kim, C Lee, Y Lee, J Lee, SJ Park… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic gap nanostructures (PGNs) have been extensively investigated mainly because
of their strongly enhanced optical responses, which stem from the high intensity of the …

An NIR‐responsive DNA‐mediated nanotetrahedron enhances the clearance of senescent cells

A Qu, X Wu, S Li, M Sun, L Xu, H Kuang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Senescence is a state of stable cell cycle arrest that can escape apoptosis and lead to aging
and numerous age‐related diseases. In this study, an upconversion‐nanoparticle (UCNP) …

Plasmonic Assemblies for Real‐Time Single‐Molecule Biosensing

RE Armstrong, M Horáček, P Zijlstra - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Their tunable optical properties and versatile surface functionalization have sparked
applications of plasmonic assemblies in the fields of biosensing, nonlinear optics, and …

Conjugation strategies of DNA to gold nanoparticles

DY Choi, S Kim, JW Oh, JM Nam - Bulletin of the Korean …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
DNA‐modified gold nanoparticles (NPs) have been extensively explored in various
applications including the construction of three‐dimensional (3D) assembly architectures …

Individual plasmonic nanoprobes for biosensing and bioimaging: recent advances and perspectives

J Ma, X Wang, J Feng, C Huang, Z Fan - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of nanofabrication techniques, plasmonic nanoparticles (PNPs) have been
widely applied in various research fields ranging from photocatalysis to chemical and bio …

Quantitative nanoplasmonics

JE Park, Y Jung, M Kim, JM Nam - ACS Central Science, 2018 - ACS Publications
Plasmonics, the study of the interactions between photons and collective oscillations of
electrons, has seen tremendous advances during the past decade. Controllable nanometer …

A guide to nucleic acid detection by single-molecule kinetic fingerprinting

A Johnson-Buck, J Li, M Tewari, NG Walter - Methods, 2019 - Elsevier
Conventional methods for detecting small quantities of nucleic acids require amplification by
the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which necessitates prior purification and introduces …

Plasmonic locator with sub‐diffraction‐limited resolution for continuously accurate positioning

PF Gao, HY Zou, MX Gao, YF Li, CZ Huang - Aggregate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Both the accurate distance measurement and positioning information at the nanoscale are
important for the analysis of micro/nano interactions. Plasmon ruler has been an …