Lipid-Coated Nanocrystals as Multifunctionalized Luminescent Scaffolds for Supramolecular Biological Assemblies

摘要

Supramolecular assemblies of self-organized,functionally cooperating molecules are essential for living matter,and have broad potential to downscale and control (bio)chemical and (bio) technological processes on the nanometer sale.An interesting recent development in this context is to combine semiconducting nanocrystals (NCs) of well-known,exceptional optical properties with various biomolecular recognition sites to produce supramolecular assemblies for in vitro and in vivo bioanalytical applications.