Tunable Carbon-Dot-Based Dual-Emission Fluorescent Nanohybrids for Ratiometric Optical Thermometry in Living Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6621-6628

  Wang, Chuanxi ^a   Lin, Huihui ^a   Xu, Zhenzhu ^a   Huang, Yijun ^a   Humphrey, Mark G ^b   Zhang, Chi ^a,b  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

carbon dots; dual emission nanohybrid; living cells; nanothermometry; tunable fluorescence

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETERS;

CARBON DOTS; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY RATIO; LIVING CELL; NANO HYBRIDS; NANOTHERMOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGICAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

CYTOLOGY;

CARBON; GOLD; NANOCOMPOSITE; QUANTUM DOT;

CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; THERMOMETRY;

CARBON; CELL LINE; GOLD; HUMANS; NANOCOMPOSITES; QUANTUM DOTS; THERMOMETRY;

EID: 84962323901     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11317     Document Type: Article

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