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Open AccessInfluence of gold nanoparticle surface chemistry and diameter upon Alzheimer’s disease amyloid-β protein aggregation
Deposits of aggregated amyloid-β protein (Aβ) are a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Thus, one therapeutic strategy is to eliminate these deposits by halting Aβ aggregation. While a variety o...
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Probing DNA Structure With Nanoparticles
Semiconductor nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots, are receiving increasing attention for their biological applications. These nanomaterials are photoluminescent and are being developed both as dyes and ...
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Optical Detection of Thymine Dinucleoside Monophosphate and Its cis-syn Photodimer by Inorganic Nanoparticles
The Watson-Crick DNA double helix is an averaged ideal of multitudinous natural sequence-directed local structural deviations. By effectively derailing normal cellular physiological processes, damaged bases ca...
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A Comparison of the Photophysical Properties of Thiolate-Capped CdS Quantum Dots with Thiolate-Capped CdS Molecular Clusters
In the last several years, great advances have been made in the ability to synthesize semiconductor quantum dots with very narrow size distributions. Here, we report the synthesis of a series of thiolate-cappe...