Title :
The investigation of optical properties of water soluble quantum dots in a quantum dot-antibody conjugated compound
Author :
Najafi Zadeh, Fatemeh Mir ; Stride, John Arron
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Chem., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Water soluble CdSe(S) quantum dots (QDs) were synthesized, modified and linked to antibodies, to give a CdSe(S) QD-antibody conjugated compound. The QD modification process was found to be effective by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), circular dichroism and UV-visible and photoluminescence spectroscopies. The QDs were linked to the antibodies using ethyl-3-(dimethylaminopropyl)carbodimide (EDC) as the coupling agent and the stability and optical properties of both the QDs and QD-antibody conjugated compound were investigated.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; X-ray photoelectron spectra; cadmium compounds; circular dichroism; molecular biophysics; nanocomposites; nanofabrication; organic compounds; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; photoluminescence; semiconductor quantum dots; solubility; ultraviolet spectra; visible spectra; wide band gap semiconductors; CdS; CdSe; UV-visible spectroscopy; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; XPS; biomolecules; circular dichroism; coupling agent; ethyl-3-(dimethylaminopropyl) carbodimide; optical properties; photoluminescence spectroscopy; quantum dot-antibody conjugated compound; semiconductor nanocrystals; water soluble quantum dots; Biology; Biomedical optical imaging; Compounds; Photoluminescence; Quantum dots; Spectroscopy; antibody; conjugated compounds; water soluble quantum dots;
Conference_Titel :
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
DOI :
10.1109/ICONN.2014.6965249
