{"id":211643,"date":"2025-04-17T02:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/customizable-fluorescent-nanoclays-offer-diverse-applications"},"modified":"2025-04-17T02:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:28:48","slug":"customizable-fluorescent-nanoclays-offer-diverse-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/customizable-fluorescent-nanoclays-offer-diverse-applications","title":{"rendered":"Customizable fluorescent nanoclays offer diverse applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/customizable-fluorescent-nanoclays-offer-diverse-applications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine tiny LEGO pieces that automatically snap together to form a strong, flat sheet. Then, scientists add special chemical \u201chooks\u201d to these sheets to attach glowing molecules called fluorophores.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Gary Baker, Piyuni Ishtaweera, Ph.D., and their team have created these tiny, clay-based materials\u2014called fluorescent polyionic nanoclays. They can be customized for many uses, including advancing energy and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sensor+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensor technology<\/a>, improving <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+treatments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical treatments<\/a> and protecting the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.chemmater.4c01864\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Chemistry of Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine tiny LEGO pieces that automatically snap together to form a strong, flat sheet. Then, scientists add special chemical \u201chooks\u201d to these sheets to attach glowing molecules called fluorophores. Associate Professor Gary Baker, Piyuni Ishtaweera, Ph.D., and their team have created these tiny, clay-based materials\u2014called fluorescent polyionic nanoclays. They can be customized for many uses, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}