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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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Autores principales: Valizadeh, Alireza, Mikaeili, Haleh, Samiei, Mohammad, Farkhani, Samad Mussa, Zarghami, Nosratalah, kouhi, Mohammad, Akbarzadeh, Abolfazl, Davaran, Soodabeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2012
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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
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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.
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Davaran, Soodabeh
Quantum dots: synthesis, bioapplications, and toxicity
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