We introduce a highly sensitive methodology that captures key vibrational signatures using surface-engineered, plasmonic, metal nanoparticles spontaneously encapsulated into protein liquid droplets allowing us to unveil the inner workings of biomolecular condensates in a droplet-by-droplet manner.

We develop an efficient strategy to increase the photoluminescence quantum yield of water-soluble gold clusters at the single-cluster level via formation of bis-Schiff base linkages, and its mechanism is deeply investigated.

We have unearthed a new artificial organelle known as “Concentriosome” to carry out spatiotemporal enzymatic cascade reactions in solution and regiospecific chemical events using the standing waves that in turn are generated by the Faraday Instability setup.

The design, synthesis, and high-resolution single-crystal X-ray structure of a superfluorinated 20 kDa gold nanocluster was achieved. The nanocluster presents an Au25 core coated by a shell of multi-branched highly fluorinated thiols (SF27) resulting in almost 500 fluorine atoms.