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Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity
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 nanotechnologies to be integrated with the biological sciences and are widely anticipated to eventually find application in a nu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22929008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-7-480 |
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author | Valizadeh, Alireza Mikaeili, Haleh Samiei, Mohammad Farkhani, Samad Mussa Zarghami, Nosratalah kouhi, Mohammad Akbarzadeh, Abolfazl Davaran, Soodabeh |
author_facet | Valizadeh, Alireza Mikaeili, Haleh Samiei, Mohammad Farkhani, Samad Mussa Zarghami, Nosratalah kouhi, Mohammad Akbarzadeh, Abolfazl Davaran, Soodabeh |
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description | 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 nanotechnologies to be integrated with the biological sciences and are widely anticipated to eventually find application in a number of commercial consumer and clinical products. They exhibit unique luminescence characteristics and electronic properties such as wide and continuous absorption spectra, narrow emission spectra, and high light stability. The application of QDs, as a new technology for biosystems, has been typically studied on mammalian cells. Due to the small structures of QDs, some physical properties such as optical and electron transport characteristics are quite different from those of the bulk materials. |
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spelling | pubmed-34634532012-10-04 Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity Valizadeh, Alireza Mikaeili, Haleh Samiei, Mohammad Farkhani, Samad Mussa Zarghami, Nosratalah kouhi, Mohammad Akbarzadeh, Abolfazl Davaran, Soodabeh Nanoscale Res Lett Nano Review 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 nanotechnologies to be integrated with the biological sciences and are widely anticipated to eventually find application in a number of commercial consumer and clinical products. They exhibit unique luminescence characteristics and electronic properties such as wide and continuous absorption spectra, narrow emission spectra, and high light stability. The application of QDs, as a new technology for biosystems, has been typically studied on mammalian cells. Due to the small structures of QDs, some physical properties such as optical and electron transport characteristics are quite different from those of the bulk materials. Springer 2012-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3463453/ /pubmed/22929008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-7-480 Text en Copyright ©2012 Valizadeh et al.; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Nano Review Valizadeh, Alireza Mikaeili, Haleh Samiei, Mohammad Farkhani, Samad Mussa Zarghami, Nosratalah kouhi, Mohammad Akbarzadeh, Abolfazl Davaran, Soodabeh Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity |
title | Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity |
title_full | Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity |
title_fullStr | Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity |
title_short | Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity |
title_sort | quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity |
topic | Nano Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22929008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-7-480 |
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