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NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 8, 期 1, 页码 57-60出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2012.232
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- Wellcome Trust EPSRC Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering [WT 088641/Z/09/Z]
- Erwin Schrodinger Fellowship
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H000917/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H000917/2] Funding Source: UKRI
The synthesis of designer solid-state materials by living organisms is an emerging field in bio-nanotechnology. Key examples include the use of engineered viruses as templates for cobalt oxide (Co3O4) particles(1), superparamagnetic cobalt-platinum alloy nanowires(2) and gold-cobalt oxide nanowires(3) for photovoltaic and battery-related applications. Here, we show that the earthworm's metal detoxification pathway can be exploited to produce luminescent, water-soluble semiconductor cadmium telluride (CdTe) quantum dots that emit in the green region of the visible spectrum when excited in the ultraviolet region. Standard wild-type Lumbricus rubellus earthworms were exposed to soil spiked with CdCl2 and Na2TeO3 salts for 11 days. Luminescent quantum dots were isolated from chloragogenous tissues surrounding the gut of the worm, and were successfully used in live-cell imaging. The addition of polyethylene glycol on the surface of the quantum dots allowed for nontargeted, fluid-phase uptake by macrophage cells.
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