Design of irreversible optical nanothermometers for thermal ablations.
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SUBMITTER: Gustafson TP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3556505 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
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Design of irreversible optical nanothermometers for thermal ablations.
Gustafson Tiffany P TP Cao Qian Q Wang Steven T ST Berezin Mikhail Y MY
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20130101 7
Nanothermometers composed from a gold nanorod core, temperature sensitive linker and fluorescent dye are reported. The nanothermometers have low fluorescence due to a self-quenching mechanism at temperatures below 50 °C and become highly fluorescence above 70 °C. ...[more]
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