Nano Express
Microwave Synthesis of Nearly Monodisperse Core/Multishell Quantum Dots with Cell Imaging Applications
Author affiliations
1 State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, People’s Republic of China
2 Ocean NanoTech LLC, 2143 Worth Lane, Springdale, AR, 72764, USA
3 Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
Citation and License
Nanoscale Research Letters 2010, 5:625-630 doi:10.1007/s11671-010-9525-1
Published: 26 January 2010Abstract
We report in this article the microwave synthesis of relatively monodisperse, highly crystalline CdSe quantum dots (QDs) overcoated with Cd0.5Zn0.5S/ZnS multishells. The as-prepared QDs exhibited narrow photoluminescence bandwidth as the consequence of homogeneous size distribution and uniform crystallinity, which was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. A high photoluminescence quantum yield up to 80% was measured for the core/multishell nanocrystals. Finally, the resulting CdSe/Cd0.5Zn0.5S/ZnS core/multishell QDs have been successfully applied to the labeling and imaging of breast cancer cells (SK-BR3).
