Optimizing the aqueous phase synthesis of CdTe quantum dots using mixed-ligands system and their applications for imaging of live cancer cells and tumors in vivo

RSC Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 8899-8908

  Wang, Yucheng ^a   Hu, Rui ^a   Lin, Guimiao ^a   Law, Wing Cheung ^b   Yong, Ken Tye ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS-PHASE SYNTHESIS; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; CDTE QUANTUM DOTS; EMISSION BANDWIDTH; LIVE CANCER CELLS; MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; SPECIFIC OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACTANT MOLECULES;

AMINO ACIDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84884720033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3ra41056k     Document Type: Article

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