Quantum dot bioconjugates for imaging, labelling and sensing

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 435-446

  Medintz, Igor L ^a   Uyeda, H Tetsuo ^a   Goldman, Ellen R ^a   Mattoussi, Hedi ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOMATERIALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONIZATION; MULTIPLEXING; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; ORGANOMETALLICS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ASSAY DETECTION; BIOCONJUGATES; FLUORESCENT LABELING; HIGH-TEMPERATURE GROWTH SOLVENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STAINING;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 20144379798     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1390     Document Type: Review

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