Facile preparation of highly luminescent CdTe quantum dots within hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s and their application in bio-imaging

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shi, Yunfeng ^a   Liu, Li ^a   Pang, Huan ^a   Zhou, Hongli ^a   Zhang, Guanqing ^a   Ou, Yangyan ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyin ^a   Du, Jimin ^a   Xiao, Wangchuan ^b  

^a ANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SANMING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bio imaging; CdTe quantum dots; Fluorescence; Hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s; Nanocomposites

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; FLUORESCENCE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

BIO-IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL FIELDS; CDTE QDS; CDTE QUANTUM DOTS; CDTE QUANTUM DOTS (QDS); FACILE PREPARATION; HYPERBRANCHED; POLY(AMIDOAMINE)S;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84928384942     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-115     Document Type: Article

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