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Introduction
Our research interests will be highly interdisciplinary in the interface of nanobiotechnology, fluorescent imaging, organic synthesis, biomaterials as well as medicinal chemistry. Specific aims of ours are to integrate the basic knowledge and techniques to design, develop and identify the small molecules, natural products, peptides and/or their analogues for probing some special biological molecular. We are also interested in development of new functional nanomaterials for enzyme detection, drug delivery and clinical diagnosis.
(a) Nanobiotechnology
Developments of metallic nanoparticles, semiconductor quantum dots, or magnetic nanomaterials for drug delivery, biocatalysis, biomolecular imaging or relevant biomedical applications.
(b) Fluorescent Imaging
Design and synthesis of new fluorescent probes (including development of organic fluorophores, fluorescent "caged" systems, fluorescent labeled peptides and/or fluorescent nanoparticles or polymers etc) for real time identification of proteins or enzymes in vitro or living cells.
(c) Biomaterials
Development of smaller molecular and peptides hydrogels or polymer based soft materials for biomedical applications.
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