Quantum dots and nanoparticles for photodynamic and radiation therapies of cancer

P Juzenas, W Chen, YP Sun, MAN Coelho… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2008 - Elsevier
Semiconductor quantum dots and nanoparticles composed of metals, lipids or polymers
have emerged with promising applications for early detection and therapy of cancer …

Facile preparation of low cytotoxicity fluorescent carbon nanocrystals by electrooxidation of graphite

QL Zhao, ZL Zhang, BH Huang, J Peng… - Chemical …, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Facile preparation of low cytotoxicity fluorescent carbon nanocrystals by electrooxidation of
graphite - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B812420E Royal Society …

Photoluminescent carbogenic dots

AB Bourlinos, A Stassinopoulos, D Anglos… - Chemistry of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The chemical synthesis and photoluminescence properties of either dispersed or supported
carbogenic nanoparticles are described. In the first case, ionic nanoparticles are obtained by …

Doped carbon nanoparticles as a new platform for highly photoluminescent dots

YP Sun, X Wang, F Lu, L Cao, MJ Meziani… - The Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
There have been rapid advances in the development and applications of semiconductor
quantum dots (QDs) represented by CdSe/ZnS. However, a serious limitation of these QDs …

Semiconductor quantum dots: synthesis and water-solubilization for biomedical applications

WW Yu - Expert opinion on biological therapy, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Quantum dots (QDs) are generally nanosized inorganic particles. They have
distinctive size-dependent optical properties due to their very small size (mostly< 10 nm) …

[PDF][PDF] 3C-SiC nanocrystals as fluorescent biological labels

J Fan, H Li, J Jiang, LKY So, YW Lam, PK Chu - Small, 2008 - cityu.edu.hk
Quantum dots are superior to dye molecules in many aspects from size-tunable
ffuorescence and resistance to photobleaching and they have thus been widely used in …

Preparation and characterization of carbon nanospheres as anode materials in lithium-ion secondary batteries

Y Wang, F Su, CD Wood, JY Lee… - Industrial & engineering …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanospheres (CNSs) with a diameter of less than 100 nm, containing nitrogen-
functional groups, and turbostratic structure were prepared by carbonizing polypyrrole …

Preparation of fluorescent magnetic nanodiamonds and cellular imaging

IP Chang, KC Hwang, CS Chiang - Journal of the American …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Magnetic nanodiamonds were prepared via solid-state microwave arcing of a
nanodiamond− ferrocene mixed powder in a focused microwave oven. High-resolution …

Evaluation of immunotargeted gold nanoshells as rapid diagnostic imaging agents for HER2-overexpressing breast cancer cells: a time-based analysis

LR Bickford, J Chang, K Fu, J Sun, Y Hu, A Gobin… - …, 2008 - Springer
Biomedical nanotechnology offers superior potential for diagnostic imaging of malignancy at
the microscopic level. In addition to current research focused on dual-imaging and …

Organic photochemistry

DC Neckers - Annual Reports Section" B"(Organic Chemistry), 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
More than one thousand photochemistry papers were published in the most cited twenty-
four scientific journals in 2007. With nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond laser …