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ReviewBiophysical reviews2011

Luminescent nanodiamonds for biomedical applications.

Jana M Say, Caryn van Vreden, David J Reilly, Louise J Brown, James R Rabeau, Nicholas J C King

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Review in Biophysical reviews, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Diamond thin films: a twenty-first century material. Part 2: a new hope.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025
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  2. Continuous Glucose Monitoring Enabled by Fluorescent Nanodiamond Boronic Hydrogel.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jana M SayARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
Caryn van VredenSchool of Medical Sciences, Bosch Institute, Department of Pathology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
David J ReillyARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, The School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Louise J BrownDepartment of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
James R RabeauARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia. james.rabeau@mq.edu.au.
Nicholas J C KingSchool of Medical Sciences, Bosch Institute, Department of Pathology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia. nickk@pathology.usyd.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, nanodiamonds have emerged from primarily an industrial and mechanical applications base, to potentially underpinning sophisticated new technologies in biomedical and quantum science. Nanodiamonds are relatively inexpensive, biocompatible, easy to surface functionalise and optically stable. This combination of physical properties are ideally suited to biological applications, including intracellular labelling and tracking, extracellular drug delivery and adsorptive detection of bioactive molecules. Here we describe some of the methods and challenges for processing nanodiamond materials, detection schemes and some of the leading applications currently under investigation.

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BiofunctionalisationDrug deliveryFluorescenceImagingNanodiamondNitrogen-vacancy centre

Identifiers

PMID28510046
PMCPMC5418387

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