(Intra) cellular stability of inorganic nanoparticles: effects on cytotoxicity, particle functionality, and biomedical applications

SJ Soenen, WJ Parak, J Rejman, B Manshian - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the growth in the field of nanotechnology has stimulated many other areas,
which eventually may involve everyday life uses as well as high-tech biomedical …

Surface modification, functionalization and bioconjugation of colloidal inorganic nanoparticles

RA Sperling, WJ Parak - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Inorganic colloidal nanoparticles are very small, nanoscale objects with inorganic cores that
are dispersed in a solvent. Depending on the material they consist of, nanoparticles can …

Array tomography: a new tool for imaging the molecular architecture and ultrastructure of neural circuits

KD Micheva, SJ Smith - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
Many biological functions depend critically upon fine details of tissue molecular architecture
that have resisted exploration by existing imaging techniques. This is particularly true for …

Quantum dot surface chemistry and functionalization for cell targeting and imaging

R Bilan, F Fleury, I Nabiev, A Sukhanova - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Quantum dots (QDs) are highly fluorescent nanoscale crystals with size-dependent emission
spectra. Due to their excellent photophysical properties, QDs are a promising alternative to …

Quantum Dots for Live Cell and In Vivo Imaging

MA Walling, JA Novak, JRE Shepard - International journal of molecular …, 2009 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, technology has made immeasurable strides to enable visualization,
identification, and quantitation in biological systems. Many of these technological …

Nanodiagnostics: application of nanotechnology in molecular diagnostics

KK Jain - Expert review of molecular diagnostics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Nanotechnology extends the limits of molecular diagnostics to the nanoscale.
Nanotechnology-on-a-chip is one more dimension of microfluidic/lab-on-a-chip technology …

Carbon-based designer and programmable fluorescent quantum dots for targeted biological and biomedical applications

K Barve, U Singh, P Yadav, D Bhatia - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) are emerging nano-biomaterials owing to their exceptional optical and
physico-chemical properties. In recent years, they have gained attention due to some of their …

Bioactivation and cell targeting of semiconductor CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals with phytochelatin-related peptides

F Pinaud, D King, HP Moore… - Journal of the American …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Synthetic phytochelatin-related peptides are used as an organic coat on the surface of
colloidal CdSe/ZnS semiconductor nanocrystals synthesized from hydrophobic coordinating …

Labelling of cells with quantum dots

WJ Parak, T Pellegrino, C Plank - Nanotechnology, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Colloidal quantum dots are semiconductor nanocrystals well dispersed in a solvent. The
optical properties of quantum dots, in particular the wavelength of their fluorescence …

Nanotechnology on duty in medical applications

T Kubik, K Bogunia-Kubik… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
At the beginning of 21st century, fifty years after discovery of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
double helix structure, scientific world is faced with a great progress in many disciplines of …