Quantum dots: Synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Valizadeh, Alireza ^a   Mikaeili, Haleh ^c   Samiei, Mohammad ^a   Farkhani, Samad Mussa ^a   Zarghami, Nosratalah ^a   Kouhi, Mohammad ^b   Akbarzadeh, Abolfazl ^a   Davaran, Soodabeh ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Emission spectra; Luminescence characteristics; QD delivery systems; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIO-SYSTEMS; BIOAPPLICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE; BULK MATERIALS; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; LIGHT STABILITY; LUMINESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS; MAMMALIAN CELLS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

TOXICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866073875     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-480     Document Type: Review

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