Nanomaterials

 

Nanomaterials

Near‐Infrared Emissive CuInS2/ZnS Quantum Dot‐Embedded Polymer Scaffolds for Photon Upconversion Imaging
16/04/2025 - CuInS₂/ZnS quantum dots (nCIS QDs) are developed via template‐assisted cation exchange, enabling photon upconversion (UC) with NIR‐I emission, a large Stokes shift (≈650 meV), and high PLQY...
Mitigating Surface Energy and Core‐Shell Interface Strain of Yb3+‐Doped ZnSe‐Based Quantum Dots for Pure‐Blue Emission QLED Devices
13/04/2025 - Breaking Quantum Confinement in Yb3⁺‐Doped ZnSe QDs: Surface‐energy engineering enables scalable growth beyond the exciton Bohr radius with high‐purity blue emission (453 nm), narrow full...
Biomimetic Intrafibrillar Mineralization of Hierarchically Structured Amyloid‐Like Fibrils
07/04/2025 - The Hierarchically Structured Amyloid‐like Fibrils (HSAF), prepared through a mechanically directed two‐step transformation of a protein nanofilm, exhibit an ordered, dynamic layered structure...
TOP‐Zn Steric Hindrance Effect Enables Ultra‐Uniform CsPbX3 Quantum Dots for Wide‐Color Gamut Displays
07/04/2025 - Ligand‐ion (TOP‐Zn) complex‐modulating nucleation strategy is applied to depress spectral broadening. This strategy is confirmed to work in blue/green/red PQDs, achieving record‐breaking...
Chiroferromagnetic Quantum Dots for Chiroptical Synapse (ChiropS)
07/04/2025 - Chiroptical activity is enhanced by up to 0.003 in the g‐factor through the induction of ferromagnetism in quantum dots. A chiroptical neuromorphic synapse, composed of chiroferromagnetic quantum...
Bimetallic-doped carbon quantum dots with enhanced photoluminescence and peroxidase-mimicking activity for dual-mode colorimetric and ratiometric fluorescence assay of alendronate
- Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are powerful signal transducers in dual-mode assays while still being challenged by their poor peroxidase-mimicking activity and photoluminescence property. Herein,...
Shortwave Infrared Light Detection and Ranging Using Silver Telluride Quantum Dots
31/03/2025 - Post‐synthesis surface engineering and doping control significantly improve the performance of Ag₂Te CQD photodiodes, achieving a low dark current of 450 nA cm−2 at −0.5 V, an LDR exceeding...
Engineering DNA circuit powered by entropy integrated into robust and elegant photoelectrochemical and photothermal dual-mode biosensing
- Dual-signal mode sensors that can self-validate detection results have attracted considerable interest; however, creating those with superior overall performance still presents significant...
Improved Facet and Edge Passivation in Near‐Infrared III‐V Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodetectors
23/03/2025 - Increasing InAs CQD size exposes diverse facets and edges, bringing challenges for effective passivation. This work introduces a mixed‐halide passivation strategy to stabilize these facets and...
SERS substrate based on large-scale self-assembled Au nanobipyramid@Ag nanorod multifunctional paper-based materials for practical and reliable quantitative SERS detection
- Pesticides and fungicides in foods pose a significant threat to human health. The design and development of a new and efficient sensing platform for the quantitative detection of contaminants in...
MAPbBr3 Quantum Dots Encapsulated Within Lanthanide‐MOFs for Time‐Resolved Multicolor Dynamic Anticounterfeiting
10/03/2025 - Multicolor dynamic anticounterfeiting are achieved by utilizing the quantum‐confinement effect of MAPbBr3 QDs within the MOFs. This unique anticounterfeiting tag enables high PL intensity and...
Surface‐ and Spatial‐Regulated Cd‐Free Quantum Dots for Efficient, Mechanically Stable, and Full‐Color Flexible Light‐Emitting Diodes
10/03/2025 - This work presents a synergistic strategy that utilizes bidentate chelating diethyldithiocarbamate as surface ligands for cadmium‐free quantum dots (QDs), which enhances the ligand binding on the...
Red, Green and Blue Liquid‐Film Lasers Based on Colloidal Quantum‐Dots
03/03/2025 - Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) in liquid films achieve breakthrough vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers across red, green, and blue spectra. By leveraging entropic ligands for ultrahigh...
Metaplasticity‐Enabled Graphene Quantum Dot Devices for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Artificial Neural Networks (Adv. Mater. 6/2025)
12/02/2025 - Metaplastic Synaptic Devices for Continual LearningIn article number 2411237, Yishu Zhang, Changhong Wang, Xiaolei Zhu, and co‐workers demonstrat an innovative metaplastic artificial synaptic...
Atomic Layer Deposition Stabilizes Nanocrystals, Enabling Reliably High‐Performance Quantum Dot LEDs
09/02/2025 - Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Al₂O₃ on ZnMgO nanocrystals eliminates aging‐induced performance variability in quantum dot light‐emitting diodes (QD‐LEDs). This scalable passivation...
Advanced Drug Delivery Systems Utilizing β‐Lactoglobulin: An Efficient Protein‐Based Drug Carrier
06/02/2025 - β‐Lactoglobulin (BLG) is a chief component of whey protein having unique functional properties for drug delivery. This review discusses the utilization of BLG in several drug delivery systems as a...
Colloidal Quantum‐Dot Heterojunction Imagers for Room‐Temperature Thermal Imaging
29/01/2025 - Room‐temperature operation or high‐operation temperature (HOT) is essential for mid‐wave infrared (MWIR) optoelectronics devices providing low‐cost and compact systems for numerous...
Synergistic Hybrid‐Ligand Passivation of Perovskite Quantum Dots: Suppressing Reduced‐Dimensionality and Enhancing Optoelectronic Performance
29/01/2025 - The generation and phase transition of reduced dimensional perovskites triggered by phenethylammonium iodide deteriorates the structural and optical properties of CsPbI3‐perovskite quantum dots...
Eco‐Friendly Fabrication of FeS2 QD‐Chitosan Biopolymer Composites: Green Synthetic Approach
25/01/2025 - ABSTRACTIn this paper, we offer a unique green synthetic approach for producing iron sulfide quantum dots (FeS2 QD)‐chitosan composites using gel chemistry. The technique uses the environmental...
Quantum Dot Luminescence Microspheres Enable Ultra‐Efficient and Bright Micro‐LEDs
21/01/2025 - Green and red quantum dot (QD) luminescence microspheres with simultaneous excellent color conversion performance and high photoluminescence stability are synthesized by a facile wet chemical...
Ten Years of Perovskite Lasers
19/01/2025 - This review explores the advances in halide perovskite lasers, covering key topics such as emission properties, optical gain mechanisms, and diverse laser architectures. It also discusses challenges...