Small GSH-Capped CuInS2 Quantum Dots: MPA-Assisted Aqueous Phase Transfer and Bioimaging Applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 17623-17629

  Zhao, Chuanzhen ^a   Bai, Zelong ^a   Liu, Xiangyou ^b   Zhang, Yijia ^a   Zou, Bingsuo ^a   Zhong, Haizheng ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

aqueous phase transfer; glutathione; ligand exchange; quantum dots; semiconductor nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; HYDROPHOBICITY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PEPTIDES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

AQUEOUS PHASE TRANSFERS; CDSE/ZNS QUANTUM DOTS; GLUTATHIONES; LIGAND EXCHANGES; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; QUANTUM DOTS-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COPPER; COPPER INDIUM DISELENIDE; GLUTATHIONE; INDIUM; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM; SULFIDE;

CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; COPPER; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; INDIUM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SULFIDES;

EID: 84939864231     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05503     Document Type: Article

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