A perspective on functionalizing colloidal quantum dots with DNA

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 853-870

  Samanta, Anirban ^a   Deng, Zhengtao ^a,b   Liu, Yan ^a   Yan, Hao ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal quantum dots; conjugation; core shell; covalent bond; DNA; ligand exchange; semiconductor nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890049627     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0367-x     Document Type: Review

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