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Synthesis of Near-Infrared Emitting Gold Nanoclusters for Biological Applications
Published on: March 22, 2020
A near-infrared light-controlled system for reversible presentation of bioactive ligands using polypeptide-engineered
Jie Yang1, Ming-Hao Yao, Ming-Shuo Du
1Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics - Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China. zydi@mail.hust.edu.cn lbyang@mail.hust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A near-infrared light-controlled hybrid platform with polypeptide-engineered functionalized gold nanorods has been designed for reversible presentation of the immobilized ligands to cell surface receptors on the engineered materials.

