Truncated Tetrahedral CdTe QDs Act as Endonucleases through Local ROS Induction

Recently in Nature Chemistry, Kuang and co-workers described truncated tetrahedral chiral cadmium telluride quantum dots (CdTe QDs) as novel endonucleases that cause the selective cleavage of DNA upon circular polarized light excitation by locally inducing the generation of reactive oxygen species. As a result, these CdTe QDs show promise in bioapplications.