Competitive performance of carbon "quantum" dots in optical bioimaging

Theranostics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 295-301

  Cao, Li ^a   Yang, Sheng Tao ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Luo, Pengju G ^a   Liu, Jia Hui ^a   Sahu, Sushant ^a   Liu, Yamin ^a   Sun, Ya Ping ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dots; Fluorescence; Optical bioimaging; Quantum dots

Indexed keywords

CARBON; INORGANIC SALT; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM YIELD;

EID: 84864412584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18387640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/thno.3912     Document Type: Article

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