Metal-Free Production of Natural Blue Colorants through Anthocyanin-Protein Interactions

Metal-Free Production of Natural Blue Colorants: Novel Insights from Anthocyanin-Protein Interactions Academic Background With increasing consumer awareness of health and natural food ingredients, the demand for natural colorants has been on the rise. However, natural blue colorants are scarce, and their production poses significant challenges. Cur...

A Spectroscopic Method for Distinguishing Two Novel Sandwich-Type Tungsten Oxide Cluster Compounds

Distinguishing Novel Sandwich-Type Tungsten Oxide Cluster Compounds Using Two-Dimensional Correlation Infrared Spectroscopy Background Introduction Polyoxometalates (POMs) are metal-oxygen cluster compounds linked through oxygen coordination with transition metal ions. They play significant roles in catalysis, optics, medicine, and magnetism. Howev...

Ion-Concentration-Dependent Dynamic Mechanism of Thiolactic-Acid-Capped Gold Nanoclusters Revealed by Fluorescence Spectra and Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy

Background and Research Questions Atomic gold nanoclusters (AuNCs), with particle sizes typically not exceeding 2 nanometers, have garnered extensive attention in recent years due to their unique photophysical properties, making them highly advantageous in biomedicine, catalysis, and sensing. These properties include excellent catalytic activity, t...

Rapid and Large-Scale Synthesis of Chiral and Fluorescent Sulfur Quantum Dots for Intracellular Temperature Monitoring

Rapid and Large-Scale Synthesis of Chiral Fluorescent Sulfur Quantum Dots for Intracellular Temperature Monitoring Academic Background Fluorescent nanomaterials have broad application potential in fields such as energy harvesting, lighting displays, communication and information technology, biology, and medicine. Among them, sulfur quantum dots (SQ...

Laser-Treated Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemiluminescence Imaging

Laser-Treated Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemiluminescence Imaging Research Academic Background Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is an analytical method that combines electrochemical and luminescent techniques, offering advantages such as high sensitivity, high selectivity, and low background noise. It is widely used in biosensing an...