Water-soluble quantum dots for biomedical applications

William W. Yu; Emmanuel Chang; Rebekah Drezek; Vicki L. Colvin

doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.160

Water-soluble quantum dots for biomedical applications

William W. Yu, Emmanuel Chang, Rebekah Drezek, Vicki L. Colvin

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Abstract

Semiconductor nanocrystals are 1-10 nm inorganic particles with unique size-dependent optical and electrical properties due to quantum confinement (so they are also called quantum dots). Quantum dots are new types of fluorescent materials for biological labeling with high quantum efficiency, long-term photostability, narrow emission, and continuous absorption spectra. Here, we discuss the recent development in making water-soluble quantum dots and related cytotoxicity for biomedical applications.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	781-786
Number of pages	6
Journal	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume	348
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.160
State	Published - Sep 29 2006

Keywords

Cytotoxicity
Quantum dot
Semiconductor nanocrystal
Water-soluble

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biophysics
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology

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