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Tiffany P Gustafson1, Qian Cao, Steven T Wang
1Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 11, 2012
Abstract:
Nanothermometers composed from a gold nanorod core, temperature sensitive linker and fluorescent dye are reported. The nanothermometers have low fluorescence due to a self-quenching mechanism at temperatures below 50 °C and become highly fluorescence above 70 °C.
