Aqueous Near‐Infrared Fluorescent Composites Based on Apoferritin‐Encapsulated PbS Quantum Dots

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viPublications viii Acknowledgements ix

Apoferritin–CeO2nano-truffle that has excellent artificial redox enzyme activity

“…1a). 8,9 To the best of our knowledge, the nano-CeO 2 , with all the faces being the most chemically active (100) facet and a narrow size distribution centered around 4.5 nm (Fig. S1, ESIw), have not been synthesized before.…”

Two‐Phase Approach to High‐Quality, Oil‐Soluble, Near‐Infrared‐Emitting PbS Quantum Dots by Using Various Water‐Soluble Anion Precursors

“…10 %), although these water-soluble approaches are very facile. [21][22][23] For non-water-soluble (or oil-soluble) PbS QDs, [19] the hotinjection approach developed by Hines and Scholes seems to be the best to engineer high-quality QD ensembles. This hot-injection method was conducted by heating a mixture of lead oxide (PbO) and oleic acid (OA, as capping ligands) in octadecene (ODE) at 150°C under Ar for one hour followed by the injection of a solution of (TMS) 2 S (sulfur source) in ODE at 150°C.…”

Apoferritin: protein nanocarrier for targeted delivery

“…Bio-templated synthesis of such particles benefits not only from the water solubility of the protein shell but also from its biocompatibility and broadens their application possibilities. These properties can be achieved not only by using the nanoreactor route but also by using apoferritin shell reassembly in the presence of target NPs [63]. [53,65,[70][71][72][73].…”

“…Apoferritin's cage is most often used as a template in nanoparticle or quantum dot (QD) synthesis [63]. It can also be used as a scaffold for supramolecular wrapping, nanoscale incarceration and nanostructure templating [64].…”