Facile synthesis of fluorescent gold nanoclusters and their application in cellular imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8232, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shang, Li ^a   Dörlich, René M ^a   Brandholt, Stefan ^a   Azadfar, Naghmeh ^a   Nienhaus, Gerd Ulrich ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Biolabels; Cellular imaging; Fluorescence probes; Gold nanoclusters

Indexed keywords

BIOLABELS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CELLULAR IMAGING; FACILE METHOD; FACILE SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FLUORESCENCE PROBES; FLUORESCENT MARKERS; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; GOLD NANOCLUSTERS; LUMINESCENCE LIFETIME; METAL NANOCLUSTERS; NEAR INFRA RED; PROTEIN ASSOCIATIONS; STOKES SHIFT; ULTRA-SMALL;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; INFRARED DEVICES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOCRYSTALS; PROBES;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84859023848     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.906250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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