Atif Masood

TL;DR: This article analyzes the interaction of nanoparticle surface and ligands with different chemical groups, the types of bonding, the final dispersibility of ligand-coated nanoparticles in complex media, their reactivity, and their performance in biomedicine, photodetectors, photovoltaic devices, light-emitting devices, sensors, memory devices, thermoelectric applications, and catalysis.

TL;DR: This report describes “in detail” selected standard protocols for the synthesis, purification, and characterization of various types of colloidal inorganic nanoparticles including gold nanoparticles, silver nanoparticles and iron oxide nanoparticles.

TL;DR: The analysis highlights the importance of the characterization of the parameters governing protein-nanoparticle interaction for quantitative evaluation and objective literature comparison and observed a clear tendency of smaller dissociation coefficients upon less negative towards more positive zeta potentials of the nanoparticles.

TL;DR: An overview of the common denominators and ideas to achieve universal metrics to assess nanosafety research is provided, including how biological media could change the physicochemical properties of colloids, how colloids are endocytosed by cells, how to distinguish between internalized versus membrane-attached colloid, and how the colloidal stability may vary upon cell internalization are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of particle size and surface coating on the proton relaxivity of IONPs, as well as engineering of small IONP's surface coating as a strategy for achieving gadolinium free contrast agents was investigated.