Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 10, 940(2010)

Uptake of transferrin-conjugated quantum dots in single living cells

Danni Chen1,2, Gaixia Xu2, Bahi Ahmed Ali3,4, Ken-Tye Yong5, Cuihong Zhou3, Xiaomei Wang3, Junle Qu2, Paras N. Prasad6, and Hanben Niu2
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Institute of Optoelectronics, Key Lab of Optoelectronics Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Key Lab of Biomedicine Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 3College of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 4Mubarak City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, New Borg Al-Arab City, Alexandria 21934, Egypt
  • 5School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
  • 6Institute for Laser, Photonics and Biophotonics, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA
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    Danni Chen, Gaixia Xu, Bahi Ahmed Ali, Ken-Tye Yong, Cuihong Zhou, Xiaomei Wang, Junle Qu, Paras N. Prasad, Hanben Niu. Uptake of transferrin-conjugated quantum dots in single living cells[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(10): 940

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    Received: Jun. 17, 2010

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    Published Online: Oct. 19, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100810.0940

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