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Published on: October 9, 2012
Highly luminescent biocompatible Carbon Quantum Dots by encapsulation with an amphiphilic polymer
Colin Fowley1, Bridgeen McCaughan, Andrea Devlin
1Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA, UK.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 16, 2012
Abstract:
Highly luminescent, water-soluble and biocompatible Carbon Quantum Dots (aqCQDs) were prepared by encapsulating the parent hydrophobic CQDs in an amphiphilic polymer. The resulting aqCQDs were non-toxic to living cells, and were found to cross the cell membrane and localise primarily in the cytosol.
