Applications of Fluorescent Nanomaterials in Imaging and Detection
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Biology and Medicines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editors
Interests: application of functional materials in light and electrochemistry; including transdermal therapeutic (TTS); systematic targeting pharmaceutics (STP); visible sensor-guided drug delivery and targeting; fluorescent probes and imaging; visible detection of virus and tumors
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Interests: visible detection and treatment of tumors; visible sensor-guided drug delivery and targeting; fluorescent probes and imaging; electrochemical sensor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Because of their special structure and optical properties, fluorescent nanomaterials have been rapidly developed and widely used in imaging and detection. At the same time, as an effective analytical method, the sensing and imaging of fluorescent nanomaterials have also brought new opportunities for developing chemistry, physics, medicine, and biology.
The complex environment in organisms has always been a large obstacle to the selectivity of fluorescent probes in biological imaging. The unique characteristics of covalent organic frameworks (COFs), such as excellent stability and biocompatibility, customizable structure, etc., give them great bioimaging potential by shielding interference from irrelevant components. Carbon dots (CDs) have high fluorescence quantum yield(FLQY) advantages, excellent water solubility, chemical stability, biocompatibility, and easy modification, and are widely used in analytical detection, bioimaging, drug delivery, catalysis, and other fields. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are commonly used for intracellular labeling, biosensing, and imaging to study cellular physiological and pathological activities, such as monitoring intracellular protein–protein interactions, disease detection in deep tissue, and cancer biomarkers.
This topic serves as an exciting collection of primary research and review articles on the recent progress in fluorescence nanomaterials in imaging and detection. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, (a) applications of functionalized fluorescent nanomaterials in the detection of different substances; (b) design and preparation of fluorescent nanomaterials with higher properties; (c) development of fluorescent nanomaterials for in vivo and in vitro bioimaging. We hope that the papers collected on this topic may inspire progress in developing fluorescent nanomaterials in imaging and detection applications.
Prof. Dr. Shiguo Sun
Dr. Beibei Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fluorescent nanomaterials
- carbon dots
- metal nanoparticles
- quantum dots
- covalent organic frameworks
- metal–organic frameworks
- fluorescence quantum yield
- bioimaging
- dual-modality
- chemosensing
- biosensing
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