Enabling biomedical research with designer quantum dots

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 811, Issue , 2012, Pages 245-265

  Tomczak, Nikodem ^a   Jańczewski, Dominik ^a   Dorokhin, Denis ^b,c   Han, Ming Yong ^a,d   Vancso, G Julius ^b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cell membrane; Cytotoxicity; Endocytosis; In vivo imaging; Living cells; Luminescence; Nanocrystals; Quantum dots; Surface modifi cation

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; STAINING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS; STAINING AND LABELING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 82355161902     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-388-2_16     Document Type: Article

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