Facile fabrication of luminescent organic dots by thermolysis of citric acid in urea melt, and their use for cell staining and polyelectrolyte microcapsule labelling

Facile fabrication of luminescent organic dots by thermolysis of citric acid in urea melt, and their use for cell staining and polyelectrolyte microcapsule labelling

Luminescent organic dots (O-dots) were synthesized via a one-pot, solvent-free thermolysis of citric acid in urea melt. The influence of the ratio of the precursors and the duration of the process on the properties of the O-dots was established and a mechanism of their formation was hypothesized. Th...

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Main Authors: Nadezhda M. Zholobak, Anton L. Popov, Alexander B. Shcherbakov, Nelly R. Popova, Mykhailo M. Guzyk, Valeriy P. Antonovich, Alla V. Yegorova, Yuliya V. Scrypynets, Inna I. Leonenko, Alexander Ye. Baranchikov, Vladimir K. Ivanov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Beilstein-Institut 2016-12-01
Series:Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
Subjects:
cell culture
citric acid
layer-by-layer (LbL)-microcapsules
luminescence
organic dots (O-dots)
staining
toxicity
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.182

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https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.182

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