Biocompatible fluorescent jelly quantum dots for bioimaging

Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 291-298

  Girija Aswathy, Ravindran ^a   Sivakumar, Balasubramanian ^a   Brahatheeshwaran, Dhandayudhapani ^a   Ukai, Tomofumi ^a   Yoshida, Yasuhiko ^a   Maekawa, Toru ^a   Sakthi Kumar, D ^a  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biocompatible; CdTe cdse; Gelatin; Nanoparticles; Quantum dots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871570030     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2011.1045     Document Type: Article

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