Fluorescent quantum dots: synthesis, biomedical optical imaging, and biosafety assessment

X Ji, F Peng, Y Zhong, Y Su, Y He - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2014 - Elsevier
The marriage of nanomaterials with biology has significantly promoted advancement of
biological techniques, profoundly facilitating basic research and practical applications in …

Solid silica nanoparticles: applications in molecular imaging

V Shirshahi, M Soltani - Contrast media & molecular imaging, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Silica and silica‐based nanoparticles have been widely used for therapeutic and diagnostic
applications in cancer mainly through delivery of drugs, genes and contrast agents …

Quantum dots as liquid crystal dopants

J Mirzaei, M Reznikov, T Hegmann - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystal nanoscience, a field exploring the mutually beneficial combination of the
unique properties of nanoscale materials and fluid, yet ordered liquid crystalline phases, is …

Controlling the growth of a SiO 2 coating on hydrophobic CsPbBr 3 nanocrystals towards aqueous transfer and high luminescence

M Li, X Zhang, P Yang - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Silica coating can effectively solve the stability issue of lead halide perovskite
nanomaterials. However, it is difficult to achieve aqueous SiO2 coating on hydrophobic …

Synthesis, modification, bioconjugation of silica coated fluorescent quantum dots and their application for mycotoxin detection

VV Goftman, T Aubert, DV Ginste, R Van Deun… - Biosensors and …, 2016 - Elsevier
To create bright and stable fluorescent biolabels for immunoassay detection of mycotoxin
deoxynivalenol in food and feed, CdSe/CdS/ZnS core–shell quantum dots (QDs) were …

Highly sensitive glutathione assay and intracellular imaging with functionalized semiconductor quantum dots

J Sun, F Liu, W Yu, Q Jiang, J Hu, Y Liu, F Wang, X Liu - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Glutathione (GSH) plays a vital role in biological systems and is associated with human
pathology. The engineering of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) as fluorescent probes for …

Catalytically stable monodispersed multi-core Ni-Co nanoparticles encapsulated with SiO2 shells for dry reforming of CH4 with CO2

KS Park, JH Kwon, JS Yu, SY Jeong, DH Jo… - Journal of CO2 …, 2022 - Elsevier
Enhanced thermal and catalytic stability of monodispersed Ni-Co bimetal nanoparticles with
its even size distribution of~ 6 nm encapsulated by SiO 2 shell (NC@ Si) having multicore …

Synthesis of highly luminescent silica-coated CdSe/CdS nanorods

F Pietra, RJA van Dijk-Moes, X Ke, S Bals… - Chemistry of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
CdSe (core)/CdS (shell) nanorods (NRs) have been extensively investigated for their unique
optical properties, such as high photoluminescence (PL) quantum efficiency (QE) and …

Efficiency improvement of commercial silicon solar cells using bilayers of luminescent nanomaterials

A Cordova-Rubio, R Lopez-Delgado… - Applied Physics A, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Photoluminescent down-shifting Silicon (Si) and Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Quantum Dots
(QDs) were synthesized and employed in spectral converter layers to increase the …

Facile preparation of stable PEG-functionalized quantum dots with glycine-enhanced photoluminescence and their application for screening of aflatoxin B1 in herbs

L Zhang, X Dou, C Zhang, G Ying, C Liu, J Luo… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rapid and sensitive analytical methods of measuring mycotoxin contamination levels in
medicinal herbs are urgently needed. This paper proposes a novel immunoassay utilizing …