Bringing chiral functionality to in vivo applications of nanomaterials

作     者：Maria Mukhina Maria Mukhina

作者机构：Department of Molecular and Cellular BiologyHarvard UniversityCambridgeMA 02138USA 

出 版 物：《Light(Science & Applications)》 (光（科学与应用)（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第11卷第6期

页      面：1038-1039页

核心收录：

学科分类：070207[理学-光学] 07[理学] 070205[理学-凝聚态物理] 08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：chiral sizes expanding 

摘      要：Chirality is a universal property of an endless number of objects in the *** is rapidly expanding to find ways to introduce chirality to artificial *** a recent publication in Light:Science and Applications,Das et *** successfully used capping with chiral ligand molecules to obtain chiral carbon *** authors provide a theoretical model to describe the origin of chirality in carbon dots as arising due to exciton coupling in a pair of chiral *** to non-toxic chemical composition and sizes as small as 2-5 nm,the chiral carbon dots have the potential to outperform other chiral nanostructures in numerous biomedical ***,similarly to chiral drugs,their chiral toxicity must be well understood before the carbon dots are brought to living systems.