Virus detection is materialized by engineered polymeric nanoparticles as host cell-mimetic decoys and analysis of the kinetic stability of nanoparticles against fusion peptides provides insight into the design of influenza viruses detection system.

We studied CdS QDs capped with chiral epimers, structural analogs, and positional isomers and determined that match/mismatch stereo-effects together with position and type of functional group affect the optical and chiroptical properties of CdS.

Juices, wines, and extracts from plants contain high concentrations of various chiral compounds such as carboxylic acids or sugars. Several prior studies reported the synthesis of metallic and semiconducting nanoparticles relying on components of complex biological solutions. Herein, we present preparation of chiral CdS and CdSe quantum dots (QDs) using apple juice and red wine via phase transfer ligand exchange. Although both apple juice and red wine contain a complex mixture of chiral and achiral compounds, we have successfully used them for selective induction of predicted chiroptical properties and confirmed L-malic acid from the apple juice and L-tartaric acid from the red wine as the chiral inducers. This work illustrates the capability of using complex mixtures to construct chiral QDs with desired chiroptical properties as well as potential of QDs to selectively report a chiral molecule in a complex chiral mixture without the need for elaborate chiral recognition system.

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