Lorenzo Berti

TL;DR: Chemistries that Facilitate Nanotechnology Kim E. Sapsford,† W. Russ Algar, Lorenzo Berti, Kelly Boeneman Gemmill,‡ Brendan J. Casey,† Eunkeu Oh, Michael H. Stewart, and Igor L. Medintz .

TL;DR: Stimuli-responsive cross-linked micelles (SCMs) represent a versatile nanocarrier system for tumor targeting drug delivery and exhibit superior structural stability under physiological condition compared to the non-crosslinked counterpart.

TL;DR: Improved peptide linkers are demonstrated which allow both conjugation to biomolecules such as DNA and self-assembly with luminescent semiconductor quantum dots and can provide a simple method for self-assembling a variety of stable quantum dot bioconjugates.

TL;DR: Findings support the idea that a dispersion of QDs consists of two optically distinct populations of nanocrystals--one is "bright" while the other is "dark;" and that the relative fraction of these two populations defines the overall PL yield.

TL;DR: The formation of electrostatic complexes between negatively charged ssDNA and positively charged iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIO-NP) is analyzed with the purpose of identifying the optimal conditions leading to stable formulations at high oligo loading levels and proposing a simple model to explain an unusual behavior observed in the formation of the complexes.