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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Fluorescent Nanoparticles"”.
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Using light to control and investigate cell biology
… I report on the spectroscopic analysis of fluorescent nanoparticles with potential biological utility.
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Residual Stress Development and Effect on the Piezoelectric Performance of Sol -Gel Derived Lead Zirconate Titanate (Pzt) Thin Films
… digital image correlation technique, in which fluorescent nanoparticles (c.a. 140 nm) provide the speckle pattern. A corresponding increase in the field induced displacements is observed for the film features with reduced residual stress. Overall, the piezoelectric performance of the films is …
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Three-dimensional periodic structures for enhancing light-matter interaction and energy storage
… colloidal opal growth was developed to place fluorescent nanoparticles at specific locations inside 3D silicon inverse opal photonic crystals (PhCs), allowing the coupling between high dielectric contrast PhCs and localized emitters to be investigated. Transfer-printing was next used to …
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Non-viral drug delivery systems for immune modulation
… significant challenges with siRNA. We next used fluorescent nanoparticles as imaging agents to study these siRNA delivery challenges. Cationic polymers were deposited on the surface of fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles electrostatically; the resulting particles were complexed with a …
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Deconstructing the room-temperature emission spectra of nanocrystals using Photon-Correlation Fourier Spectroscopy
… new avenues for the synthetic optimization of fluorescent nanoparticles. Finally, we have made strides toward understanding the underlying physical processes responsible for the homogeneous spectra of single nanocrystals at room temperature. Through careful synthetic control over the …
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Fluorinated Nanoparticles: A Novel Technology Platform for Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Applications
… and in vitro diagnostic imaging. Fluorinated nanoparticles were synthesized from one of two fluorinated monomers, as well as a hydrophilic monomer and hydrophilic crosslinker to enhance the aqueous colloidal stability of the nanoparticles. Nanoparticles were then characterized to determine …
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Identifying the Relevance of C-Reactive Protein Conformers and the Advancement of a Membrane Curvature Binding Assay
… for a supported lipid bilayer to coat. By using fluorescent nanoparticles of a specific size, curvature based interactions can be visualized and quantified. Results show that the amount of CRP binding is not only dependent on protein conformation but also on membrane curvature size.</p> …
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The Fundamental Photophysics of Fluorescent Carbon Nanodots
… now ranging in the thousands per year. CDs are nanoparticles composed by carbon, oxygen and hydrogen with a size smaller than 10 nm. Their most important hallmark is their strong luminescence, which is combined with many additional benefits as the low cost and ease of synthesis, the high water …
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RECYCLING OF WASTE BLOOD INTO FUNCTIONAL CARBON NANOPARTICLES
… expired blood into hemoglobin-derived carbon nanoparticles (Hemodots, HDs) with potential biomedical applications. The study addresses challenges in blood waste management and explores alternative anticoagulant therapies. Through a hydrothermal process, optimal conditions for HD synthesis were …
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Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in marine biota from the Catania Gulf (Sicily, Italy) and development of new sensitive analytical methods for their detection
… been developed by using an aromatic anion highly fluorescent, i. e. fluorescein. Preliminary results suggest an efficient energy transfer from pyrene donor to fluorescein acceptor, which probably occurs via the stacking interactions of the two aromatic systems that result to be an important …