Toward structurally defined carbon dots as ultracompact fluorescent probes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4522-4529

  Lecroy, Gregory Ethan ^a   Sonkar, Sumit Kumar ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Veca, L Monica ^b   Wang, Ping ^a   Tackett, Kenneth N ^a   Yu, Jing Jiang ^c   Vasile, Eugeniu ^d   Qian, Haijun ^a   Liu, Yamin ^a   Luo, Pengju ^a   Sun, Ya Ping ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

bioimaging; carbon dots; fluorescence; functionalized nanoparticles; green fluorescence protein (GFP); molecular probes; quantum dots; ultracompact probes

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; PROBES; PROTEINS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BIO-IMAGING; CARBON DOTS; FUNCTIONALIZED NANOPARTICLES; GREEN FLUORESCENCE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR PROBES;

CARBON;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84901649795     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406628s     Document Type: Article

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