Synthesis of CuAlS2 nanocrystals and their application in bio-imaging

Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 94-104

  Poulose, Aby Cheruvathoor ^a   Veeranarayanan, Srivani ^a   Aravind, Athulya ^a   Nagaoka, Yutaka ^a   Yoshida, Yasuhiko ^a   Maekawa, Toru ^a   Sakthi Kumar, D ^a  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biocompatible; Cancer cell imaging; Cancer cell targeting; CuAlS2 nanocrystals; Luminescence; Poly ethylene glycol folate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871539655     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2012.1058     Document Type: Article

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