-
What are Metal Nanoclusters
Metal nanoclusters are a kind of nanomaterials with a size of less than 2 nm and stacked by 1 to 150 metal atoms. Metal nanoclusters have a typical core-shell structure, consisting of a metal atomic core and a ligand molecular shell. Ligands are usually substances that have strong covalent interaction with metal atoms such as amino groups, sulfhydryl groups, and phosphorus groups, such as thiol compounds, dendrimers, polymers, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), polypeptides, and proteins. At present, gold nanoclusters (AuNCs), silver nanoclusters (AgNCs), platinum nanoclusters (PtNCs), copper nanoclusters (CuNCs) and other metal nanoclusters have been widely synthesized. In recent years, metal nanoclusters have made remarkable achievements in biomedical fields such as…
-
Application of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in Tumor Imaging and Treatment
Magnetic nanoparticles have received great attention in various fields due to their unique physicochemical properties and wide application potential.In the past decade, the synthesis and application of magnetic nanoparticles from the bottom up has been a hot topic in the field of chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and biomedicine. High-quality magnetic nanoparticles can be synthesized by chemical methods such as coprecipitation, high temperature thermal decomposition, and sol-gel methods. Compared to the top-down synthesis method, the bottom-up synthesis method can synthesize nanoparticles with uniform particle size and can be widely used in various fields: data storage, catalysts, biological separation and biosensing. A typical magnetic nanoparticle is synthesized by a bottom-up method comprising…
