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Properties of Quantum Dots: A New Nanoprobe for Bioimaging

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Nanobiotechnology has vast potentials to bring revolutionary progress in disease diagnosis and therapy, in which quantum dot (QD) based research has become one of the most important topics. During the past decades, QDs have been widely used in a huge number of biomedical applications, where traditional organic dyes and fluorescent proteins were the only tools available before. QDs have unique advantages including excellent fluorescence brightness and high photostability that allows for image acquisition with desirable quality. It is believed that, with the great developments in bandgap engineering and chemical synthesis of QDs and their surface biofunctionalization, QDs will play significant roles in future fundamental study and clinical applications in biomedicine.

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Li, C., Dong, B., Wang, Q. (2014). Properties of Quantum Dots: A New Nanoprobe for Bioimaging. In: Bhushan, B., Luo, D., Schricker, S., Sigmund, W., Zauscher, S. (eds) Handbook of Nanomaterials Properties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31107-9_48

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