Quantum dots versus organic dyes as fluorescent labels

Nature Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 763-775

  Resch Genger, Ute ^a   Grabolle, Markus ^a   Cavaliere Jaricot, Sara ^b   Nitschke, Roland ^c   Nann, Thomas ^b  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYE; INDOCYANINE GREEN; ORGANIC DYE; QUANTUM DOT; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE ISOTHIOCYANATE;

ABSORPTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; CYTOTOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFETIME MULTIPLEXING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NANOTOXICOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SOLUBILIZATION; SPECTRAL MULTIPLEXING; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TARGET CELL; THERMOSTABILITY;

FLUORESCENT DYES; QUANTUM DOTS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 50849104529     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1248     Document Type: Review

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