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Liguang Xu is a researcher affiliated with Jiangnan University in China. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry. Their work also extends into interdisciplinary areas such as food science and spectroscopy.

The scientist's research interests include advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, biosensors and analytical detection, and nanocluster synthesis and applications. Other notable topics involve pesticide residue analysis and safety, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, and advanced biosensing techniques and applications.

Liguang Xu has published extensively in several notable scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Food Chemistry
  • The Analyst
  • Advanced Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Selected recent publications by Liguang Xu demonstrate the scope and impact of their research:

  • Enantiomer-dependent immunological response to chiral nanoparticles, 2022, Nature
  • Polarization-sensitive optoionic membranes from chiral plasmonic nanoparticles, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Stimulation of neural stem cell differentiation by circularly polarized light transduced by chiral nanoassemblies, 2020, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Chiral Plasmonic Triangular Nanorings with SERS Activity for Ultrasensitive Detection of Amyloid Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • An Overview for the Nanoparticles-Based Quantitative Lateral Flow Assay, 2021, Small Methods

Throughout their career, Liguang Xu has collaborated frequently with several researchers. The most common co-authors include:

  • Chuanlai Xu
  • Hua Kuang
  • Liqiang Liu
  • Maozhong Sun
  • Xinxin Xu

Best Publications

  • Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures

    Wei Ma;Liguang Xu;André F. de Moura;Xiaoling Wu

  • Attomolar DNA detection with chiral nanorod assemblies

    Wei Ma;Hua Kuang;Liguang Xu;Li Ding

  • Dual-Mode Ultrasensitive Quantification of MicroRNA in Living Cells by Chiroplasmonic Nanopyramids Self-Assembled from Gold and Upconversion Nanoparticles

    Si Li;Liguang Xu;Wei Ma;Xiaoling Wu

  • Self-Assembly of Chiral Nanoparticle Pyramids with Strong R/S Optical Activity

    Wenjing Yan;Liguang Xu;Chuanlai Xu;Wei Ma;Wei Ma

  • Chiral Molecule-mediated Porous CuxO Nanoparticle Clusters with Antioxidation Activity for Ameliorating Parkinson’s Disease

    Changlong Hao;Aihua Qu;Liguang Xu;Maozhong Sun

  • Side-by-side and end-to-end gold nanorod assemblies for environmental toxin sensing.

    Libing Wang;Yingyue Zhu;Liguang Xu;Wei Chen;Wei Chen

  • Unexpected chirality of nanoparticle dimers and ultrasensitive chiroplasmonic bioanalysis.

    Xiaoling Wu;Liguang Xu;Liqiang Liu;Wei Ma

  • SERS Encoded Silver Pyramids for Attomolar Detection of Multiplexed Disease Biomarkers

    Liguang Xu;Wenjing Yan;Wei Ma;Hua Kuang

  • Regiospecific Plasmonic Assemblies for in Situ Raman Spectroscopy in Live Cells

    Liguang Xu;Hua Kuang;Chuanlai Xu;Wei Ma;Wei Ma

  • Nanoparticle assemblies: dimensional transformation of nanomaterials and scalability

    Liguang Xu;Wei Ma;Wei Ma;Libing Wang;Chuanlai Xu

  • Dual Quantification of MicroRNAs and Telomerase in Living Cells

    Wei Ma;Pan Fu;Maozhong Sun;Liguang Xu

  • Hierarchical Plasmonic Nanorods and Upconversion Core–Satellite Nanoassemblies for Multimodal Imaging-Guided Combination Phototherapy

    Maozhong Sun;Liguang Xu;Wei Ma;Xiaoling Wu

  • Site-selective photoinduced cleavage and profiling of DNA by chiral semiconductor nanoparticles.

    Maozhong Sun;Liguang Xu;Aihua Qu;Peng Zhao

  • Dynamic nanoparticle assemblies.

    Libing Wang;Liguang Xu;Hua Kuang;Chuanlai Xu

  • A SERS active gold nanostar dimer for mercury ion detection

    Wei Ma;Maozhong Sun;Liguang Xu;Libing Wang

  • Fabricated aptamer-based electrochemical "signal-off" sensor of ochratoxin A.

    Hua Kuang;Wei Chen;Dinghua Xu;Liguang Xu

  • Chiral plasmonics of self-assembled nanorod dimers.

    Wei Ma;Hua Kuang;Libing Wang;Liguang Xu

  • Analytical methods and recent developments in the detection of melamine

    Fengxia Sun;Wei Ma;Liguang Xu;Yinyue Zhu

  • SERS-active Au@Ag nanorod dimers for ultrasensitive dopamine detection.

    Lijuan Tang;Si Li;Fei Han;Liqiang Liu

  • Chiral Core–Shell Upconversion Nanoparticle@MOF Nanoassemblies for Quantification and Bioimaging of Reactive Oxygen Species in Vivo

    Changlong Hao;Xiaoling Wu;Maozhong Sun;Hongyu Zhang

  • Building An Aptamer/Graphene Oxide FRET Biosensor for One-Step Detection of Bisphenol A

    Yingyue Zhu;Yilin Cai;Liguang Xu;Lixue Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Hua Kuang
Hua Kuang Jiangnan University
Chuanlai Xu
Chuanlai Xu Jiangnan University
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Jiangnan University
Libing Wang
Libing Wang Jiangnan University
Nicholas A. Kotov
Nicholas A. Kotov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Wei Chen
Wei Chen Jiangnan University
Luis M. Liz-Marzán
Luis M. Liz-Marzán CIC biomaGUNE
Rui Gao
Rui Gao University of Waterloo
Stephan Link
Stephan Link Rice University
Hendrik Heinz
Hendrik Heinz University of Colorado Boulder

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