Research related to the development and application of luminescent nanoparticles (LNPs)
for chemical and biological analysis and imaging is flourishing. Novel materials and new …

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale semiconductor crystals with surface ligands
that enable their dispersion in solvents. Quantum confinement effects facilitate wave function …

Recently it has become possible to de novo design high affinity protein binding proteins from
target structural information alone. There is, however, considerable room for improvement as …

Nanoparticle size plays a central role in determining material properties and performance in
biomedical applications. A wide variety of functional nanomaterials and nano-bioconjugates …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have become important fluorescent probes for in vitro
and in vivo bioimaging research. Their nanoparticle surfaces for versatile bioconjugation …

Optical microscopy has for centuries been a key tool to study living cells with minimum
invasiveness. The advent of single molecule techniques over the past two decades has …

The understanding of biological systems at the molecular scale is increasingly reliant on the
capability of tracking miscellaneous biomolecules and their events with improved spatial …

The key attribute of the thiol-Michael addition reaction that makes it a prized tool in materials
science is its modular “click” nature, which allows for the implementation of this highly …

In recent years, semiconducting polymer nanoparticles have attracted considerable attention
because of their outstanding characteristics as fluorescent probes. These nanoparticles …

This critical review will present the role of nanoparticles (NPs) in the directions that are vital
to the new field of nanomedicine, including imaging and drug delivery. We reflect on the …