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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Cell Imaging Using Two-Photon Excited CdS Fluorescent Quantum Dots Working within the Biological Window.

Nannan Zhang, Xiao Liu, Zhongchao Wei, Haiying Liu, Jie Peng, Liya Zhou, Hongmei Li, Haihua Fan

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Sustainable Scalable Mechanochemical Synthesis of CdS/BiNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  5. Nanomedicines for Near-Infrared Fluorescent Lifetime-Based Bioimaging.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Nannan ZhangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. clzhangnannan@163.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8192-7718
Xiao LiuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. shawer1004@163.com.
Zhongchao WeiGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. wzc@scnu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-3586-2180
Haiying LiuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. hyliu@scnu.edu.cn.
Jie PengDepartment of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology/College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510631, China. kitpeng@jnu.edu.cn.
Liya ZhouSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China. zhouliyatf@163.com.
Hongmei LiSchool of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, State Key Lab for Biocontrol, Guangzhou 510275, China. lihongmei@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
Haihua FanGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. fanhh@scnu.edu.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 61664002National Natural Science Foundation of China 61774062Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 2018030310342Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 2018A030313854
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, two-photon excited semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been the subject of intense investigation due to their long excitation wavelength which helps to achieve deeper penetration and higher image resolution in optical bioimaging. In this paper, water-soluble CdS QDs were synthesized using a hydrothermal method and applied to human liver hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) cells. The first-principles calculation suggested that the S-rich defected structure contributes to a narrower band gap compared to the pristine structure. The resulting fluorescence wavelength was significantly red shifted, which was attributed to the deep defect states emission. The large Stokes shifts (> 200 nm) of the QDs can eliminate the possible cross-talk between the excitation light and the emission light. Two-photon induced red fluorescence emission can avoid overlapping with the autofluorescence emission of biological samples. The uptake and cell viability measurements of the HepG2 cells showed a good biocompatibility and a low toxicity of CdS QDs. Two-photon excited scanning microscopy images revealed that the HepG2 cells incubated with CdS QDs emitted bright red upconversion fluorescence and the fluorescence brightness was 38.2 times of that of the control group. These results support CdS QDs as a good candidate for application in cellular imaging.

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biological imagingCdS quantum dotsdeep defect statesHePG2 cellstwo-photon absorption

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