Synthesis, characterization and cells and tissues imaging of carbon quantum dots

Publication date: October 2017
Source:Optical Materials, Volume 72
Author(s): Jing Wang, Qilong Li, JingE. Zhou, Yiting Wang, Lei Yu, Hui Peng, Jianzhong Zhu
Compare to other quantum dots, carbon quantum dots have its own incomparable advantages, such as low cell toxicity, favorable biocompatibility, cheap production cost, mild reaction conditions, easy to large-scale synthesis and functionalization. In this thesis, we took citric acid monohydrate and diethylene glycol bis (3-aMinopropyl) ether as materials, used decomposition method to acquire carbon quantum dots (CQDs) which can emission blue fluorescence under ultraviolet excitation. In the aspect of application, we achieved the biological imaging of CQDs in vivo and in vitro.

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