Quantum dots: bright and versatile in vitro and in vivo fluorescence imaging biosensors

KD Wegner, N Hildebrandt - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have become important fluorescent probes for in vitro
and in vivo bioimaging research. Their nanoparticle surfaces for versatile bioconjugation …

Chemistry, biology, and medicine of fluorescent nanomaterials and related systems: new insights into biosensing, bioimaging, genomics, diagnostics, and therapy

J Yao, M Yang, Y Duan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …

Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity

A Valizadeh, H Mikaeili, M Samiei, SM Farkhani… - Nanoscale research …, 2012 - Springer
This review introduces quantum dots (QDs) and explores their properties, synthesis,
applications, delivery systems in biology, and their toxicity. QDs are one of the first …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticles: Emerging carriers for drug delivery

SR Mudshinge, AB Deore, S Patil… - Saudi pharmaceutical …, 2011 - Elsevier
The core objective of nanoparticles is to control and manipulate biomacromolecular
constructs and supramolecular assemblies that are critical to living cells in order to improve …

EM-wave biosensors: A review of RF, microwave, mm-wave and optical sensing

P Mehrotra, B Chatterjee, S Sen - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
This article presents a broad review on optical, radio-frequency (RF), microwave (MW),
millimeter wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) biosensors. Biomatter-wave interaction …

Colloidal nanocarriers: a review on formulation technology, types and applications toward targeted drug delivery

B Mishra, BB Patel, S Tiwari - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, biology and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Colloidal nanocarriers, in their various forms, have the possibility of providing endless
opportunities in the area of drug delivery. The current communication embodies an in-depth …

Biological applications of quantum dots

T Jamieson, R Bakhshi, D Petrova, R Pocock, M Imani… - Biomaterials, 2007 - Elsevier
Quantum dots (QDs) are a novel class of inorganic fluorophore which are gaining
widespread recognition as a result of their exceptional photophysical properties. They are …

Green approach for nanoparticle biosynthesis by fungi: current trends and applications

GS Dhillon, SK Brar, S Kaur… - Critical reviews in …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, the green approach of nanoparticle synthesis by biological entities has been
gaining great interest over various other physico-chemical methods, which are laden with …

Physicochemical properties and cellular toxicity of nanocrystal quantum dots depend on their surface modification

A Hoshino, K Fujioka, T Oku, M Suga, YF Sasaki… - Nano Letters, 2004 - ACS Publications
Nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) have been applied to molecular biology because of their
greater and longer fluorescence. Here we report the potential cytotoxicity of our …

Nanoparticles in practice for molecular-imaging applications: an overview

P Padmanabhan, A Kumar, S Kumar, RK Chaudhary… - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles (NPs) are playing a progressively more significant role in multimodal and
multifunctional molecular imaging. The agents like Superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) …