Fluorescent nanocrystals

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Qian HS, Li ZQ, Zhang Y (2008) Multicolor polystyrene nanospheres tagged with up-conversion fluorescent nanocrystals. Nanotechnology 19(255601)4... 

Sukhanova A et al (2004) Biocompatible fluorescent nanocrystals for immunolabeling of membrane proteins and cells. Anal Biochem 324 60-67... 

A. Majumdar, and A. P. Alivisatos. Room-Temperature Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism and Multiallele DNA Detection Using Fluorescent Nanocrystals and Microarrays, Anal. Chem. 2003, 75, 4766. 

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The fluorescent properties of semiconductor nanocrystals have drawn wide attention because of their potential use as labels in fluorescence bio-assays [25, 26, 84, 168-170]. When compared to dyes currently in use, the emission from fluorescent nanocrystals is brighter and sharper. Further, the emission can be brought about by excitation over a broad range of wavelengths. It is therefore possible to excite nanocrystals of several different sizes simultaneously with a single source and obtain well resolved emission at different colours. In order that the nano-... 

Heterogeneous immunoassay in which a nanometer-sized (less than lOnm) semiconductor quantum dot is used as a label. A quantum dot is a highly fluorescent nanocrystal composed of CdSe, CdS, ZnSe, InP, or InAs or a layer of ZnS or CdS on, for example, a CdSe core. Multiplexing is possible with these labels because the emission properties can be modulated by changing the size and composition of the nanocrystal (e.g., CdS emits blue light, InP emits red light). 

Rosenthal SJ. Bar-coding biomolecules with fluorescent nanocrystals. Nat Biotechnol 2001 19 621-22. 

Cariello NF (2004) Visualization and quantification of peroxisomes using fluorescent nanocrystals treatment of rats and monkeys with fibrates and detection in the liver. Toxicol Sci 80 183-192... 

Sukhanova A, Devy J, Venteo L, Kaplan H, Artemyev M, Oleinikov V, Klinov D, Pluot M, Cohen JH, Nabiev I (2004) Biocompatible fluorescent nanocrystals for immunolabeling of membrane proteins and cells. Anal Biochem 324 60-67... 

Chu, T. C., Shieh, F., Lavery, L. A., Levy, M., Richards-Kortum, R., Korgel, B. A., and Ellington, A. D. (2006) Labeling tumor cells with fluorescent nanocrystal-aptamer bioconjugates. Biosens Bioelectron. 21, 1859-1866... 

Jalil RA, Zhang Y (2008) Biocompatibility of silica coated NaYF4 upconversion fluorescent nanocrystals. Biomaterials 29 4122-4128... 

Chu, T.C. et al. Labeling tumor cells with fluorescent nanocrystal-aptamer bioconjugates. Biosensors and Bio electronics 21,1859-1866, 2006. 

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