Zhiming Liu

ORCID: 0000-0003-0879-9438
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  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Lignin and Wood Chemistry
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Flame retardant materials and properties
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

South China Normal University
2016-2025

Northeast Forestry University
2022-2025

Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province
2025

Material (Belgium)
2025

Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology
2024

Qingdao University of Science and Technology
2024

Qujing Normal University
2024

State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China
2013-2023

Nanjing Forestry University
2023

Eastern New Mexico University
2019-2023

Carbon dots (CDs) have been studied for years as one of the most promising fluorescent nanomaterials. However, CDs with red or solid-state fluorescence are rarely reported. Herein, through a one-pot solvothermal treatment, hydrophobic (H-CDs) blue dispersed emission and aggregation-induced obtained. When water is introduced, interaction leads to aggregation H-CDs. The formation H-CD clusters induces turning off emission, carbonized cores suffer from π-π stacking interactions, on...

10.1038/s41467-019-09830-6 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2019-04-17

A multifunctional nanoplatform based on black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) was developed for cancer bioimaging and combined photothermal therapy (PTT) photodynamic (PDT). BPQDs were functionalized with PEG chains to achieve improved biocompatibility physiological stability. The as-prepared nanoparticles exhibite prominent near-infrared (NIR) red-light-triggered properties. therapeutic application of PEGylated then performed in vitro vivo. results demonstrate that the phototherapy...

10.1021/acsami.7b05824 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2017-07-03

Conductive hydrogels have shown great promise in flexible electronics, but their practical applications may be impeded by the time-consuming and energy-consuming polymerization process. We proposed a sodium lignosulfonate-Fe (SLS-Fe) strategy to address this challenge took advantage of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) poly(acrylic acid) prepare CMC/PAA/Fe

10.1021/acsami.2c21617 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023-02-10

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have been developed as promising optical probes for bioimaging due to their excellent photoluminescent properties. Additionally, the fluorescence spectrum and yield of GQDs are highly dependent on surface functional groups carbon sheets. However, distribution cytotoxicity functionalized with different chemical not specifically investigated. Herein, three kinds modified (NH2, COOH, CO-N (CH3)2, respectively) in human A549 lung carcinoma cells neural glioma C6 was...

10.1186/1556-276x-9-108 article EN cc-by Nanoscale Research Letters 2014-03-06

Ultrathin g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> nanosheets and fluorescent quantum dots are simultaneously prepared <italic>via</italic> one-pot ethanol-thermal treatment in the presence of KOH.

10.1039/c7nj00058h article EN New Journal of Chemistry 2017-01-01

The intrinsic Raman signals provide the potential of graphene oxide (GO) for cellular imaging. Herein, novel surface-enhanced scattering (SERS) labels based on GO-Ag nanoparticle (NP) composites are developed fast probing and optimum SERS hybrids can be well controlled by adjusting weight ratio between AgNO(3) GO. Utilizing GO-AgNPs as highly sensitive optical probes, imaging cancer cells is realized with a very short integration time about 0.06 s per pixel. Furthermore, folic acid (FA)...

10.1039/c2cp43715e article EN Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2013-01-01

This study aims to present a noninvasive prostate cancer screening methods using serum surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and support vector machine (SVM) techniques through peripheral blood sample. SERS measurements are performed samples from 93 patients 68 healthy volunteers by silver nanoparticles. Three types of kernel functions including linear, polynomial, Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) employed build SVM diagnostic models for classifying measured spectra. For comparably...

10.1063/1.4892667 article EN Applied Physics Letters 2014-09-01

Black phosphorus (BP), a new type of two-dimensional nanomaterial, has attracted crucial attention in recent years owing to its excellent properties and great potential various chemical, physical, biological fields. In this study, BP nanosheets loaded with Au nanoparticles (BP-Au NSs) are obtained by one-step facile synthetic method. The nanostructures can not only enhance the photothermal efficiency nanocomposites, but also endow BP-Au NSs act as effective surface-enhanced Raman scattering...

10.1039/c7bm00414a article EN Biomaterials Science 2017-01-01

Abstract This study aims to characterize and classify serum surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spectra between bladder cancer patients normal volunteers by genetic algorithms (GAs) combined with linear discriminate analysis (LDA). Two group SERS excited nanoparticles are collected from healthy (n = 36) 55). Six diagnostic bands in the regions of 481–486, 682–687, 1018–1034, 1313–1323, 1450–1459 1582–1587 cm −1 related proteins, nucleic acids lipids picked out GAs LDA. By models built...

10.1038/srep09582 article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2015-05-07

Different from their bulk counterparts, plasmonic molybdenum oxide nanomaterials display superior optical and electronic properties, but unfortunately, phase-controlled synthesis of with multifunctional performances still remains a challenge. To actualize this, surfactant-free solvothermal strategy was proposed to fabricate tunable phase. Encouragingly, the as-prepared dioxide nanoparticles (MoO2 NPs) exhibit intense near-infrared (NIR) absorption attributed localized surface plasmon...

10.1039/c8nr00413g article EN Nanoscale 2018-01-01

A greenhouse research study was conducted at Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM, USA, in 2019 to examine the effects of different nutrient solutions on growth and weight two lettuce cultivars grown a floating hydroponic system. Two cultivars, Buttercrunch Black Seeded Simpson, were subjected one four concentrations N, K Ca 150, 100, 150 ppm (N1), 210, 235, 200 (N2), 250, 300 250 (N3), 300, 350, 350 (N4), respectively. The cultivar N3 treatment proved significantly more productive...

10.3390/horticulturae5040072 article EN cc-by Horticulturae 2019-10-15

Flake-shaped nanohybrids based on black phosphorus (BP) have been developed as multifunctional theranostic nanoplatforms for drug delivery, phototherapy and bioimaging.

10.1039/c8nr05300f article EN Nanoscale 2018-01-01

Effective cancer treatment puts high demands for theranostics. For diagnostics, optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology (including photothermal (PT-OCT)) has been widely investigated since it induces changes in phase transitions tissue through environmental (such as temperature change PT-OCT). In this report, redox responsive nanoparticle encapsulating black phosphorus quantum dots was developed a robust PT-OCT agent. Briefly, (BPQDs) are incorporated into cysteine-based...

10.1016/j.bioactmat.2020.08.034 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Bioactive Materials 2020-09-21

Abstract There are still huge challenges in the development of carbon dots (CDs) based long afterglow materials with multicolor emissions, especially aqueous solutions. This work reports a novel strategy achieving solution by incorporating phosphorescent CDs and fluorescent dyes into sub‐20 nm monodispersed silica nanoparticles. The matrix not only stabilizes triplet excitons but also facilitates efficient cascade Förster resonance energy transfer between donor acceptor (fluorescent dyes),...

10.1002/adom.202102666 article EN Advanced Optical Materials 2022-03-20

Teeth staining is a common dental health challenge in many parts of the world. Traditional teeth whitening techniques often lead to enamel damage and soft tissue toxicity due use bioincompatible reagents continuous strong light irradiation. Herein, an "afterglow" photodynamic therapy (aPDT) for proposed, which realized by energy transition pathways intersystem crossing. The covalent hydrogen bonds formed carbon dots embedded silica nanoparticles (CDs@SiO2) facilitate passage through crossing...

10.1021/acsnano.3c05116 article EN ACS Nano 2023-10-20

The flexible wearable sweat sensor that enables real-time monitoring and noninvasive sampling is emerging as a new focal point in medical healthcare. It represents an ideal choice for analyzing the constituents human to assess individual physiological states potential related diseases. Here, we introduce plasmonic paper-based microfluidic device based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) equipped with portable spectrometer continuous situ of sweat. Extensible segmented channels...

10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01490 article EN ACS Photonics 2024-02-07
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