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Production and Targeting of Monovalent Quantum Dots
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Controlled DNA condensation and targeted cellular imaging by ligand exchange in a polysaccharide-quantum dot
Yu-Hui Zhang1, Ying-Ming Zhang, Yang Yang
1Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China. yuliu@nankai.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A multicomponent supramolecular nanoparticle composed of a polysaccharide-quantum dot conjugate was successfully constructed using a ligand-exchange method, which possessed low cellular cytotoxicity and showed controlled DNA condensation and targeted cellular imaging abilities toward cancer cells.

