Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 154-163Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ijms11010154
Keywords
nanotechnology; nanomedicine; bionanotechnology; nanoparticle; quantum dot; fluorescence; flow cytometry; toxicity; imaging
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Imagine devices or particles so small that they are invisible to the naked eye. Imagine that such entities could be used to patrol our bodies and autonomously augment endogenous defense and repair mechanisms. Imagine the defeat of illness at a fraction of the current costs. Bionanotechnology is the field of science that deals with just that: the development of imaging, tracking, targeting, sensing, diagnostic, and eventually therapeutic capabilities based on particles in the nanometer range, i.e., nanoparticles. Within the extensive group of nanoparticles, semiconducting quantum dots play a central and prominent role. Quantum dots excel at a myriad of physical properties, most notably their fluorescent properties, such as high quantum yield, photo-stability, broad absorption spectra, and their remarkable size-dependent emission-tunability.
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