Carbon "Quantum" Dots for Fluorescence Labeling of Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 34, 2015, Pages 19439-19445

  Liu, Jia Hui ^a,b   Cao, Li ^b   LeCroy, Gregory E ^b   Wang, Ping ^b   Meziani, Mohammed J ^b   Dong, Yiyang ^a   Liu, Yuanfang ^c,d   Luo, Pengju G ^b   Sun, Ya Ping ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon dots; cell imaging; fluorescence labeling; quantum dots; stem cells; two photon fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STEM CELLS;

CARBON DOTS; CELL IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE LABELING; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; SURFACE FUNCTIONALITIES; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS;

CYTOLOGY;

CARBON; FLUORESCENT DYE; QUANTUM DOT;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STAINING; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FLUORESCENT DYES; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; QUANTUM DOTS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84940845838     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05665     Document Type: Article

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