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Quantum Dots: Potential Cell Imaging Agent

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Application of Quantum Dots in Biology and Medicine

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Fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals (also known as quantum dots or QDs) have become monumental over the past two decades in the material science as well as biomedical field due to their tunable optical properties. Moreover, the exclusive nature of QDs has always kept it one step ahead of conventional organic fluorophores, particularly in cell imaging. QDs exhibit extremely bright multicolor fluorescence behaviour, high photo-stability, larger extinction co-efficient and lesser photo bleaching tendencies inside the cellular environment which make them as advanced labelling agents. Here we have depicted the supreme characteristics features of different types of QDs and their applications in the in vitro and in vivo cell imaging. Recently, QDs are safely used in the advanced clinical research as promising diagnostic tool that will surely open up a new direction.

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Mallick, T., Karmakar, A., Sultana, Z. (2022). Quantum Dots: Potential Cell Imaging Agent. In: Barik, P., Mondal, S. (eds) Application of Quantum Dots in Biology and Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3144-4_10

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