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SUBMITTER: Bumb A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3689586 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130422 21
Fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) emit in the near-IR and do not photobleach or photoblink. These properties make FNDs better suited for numerous imaging applications compared with commonly used fluorescence agents such as organic dyes and quantum dots. However, nanodiamonds do not form stable suspensions in aqueous buffer, are prone to aggregation, and are difficult to functionalize. Here we present a method for encapsulating nanodiamonds with silica using an innovative liposome-based encapsulati ...[more]