- Design of irreversible optical nanothermometers for thermal ablations.
Design of irreversible optical nanothermometers for thermal ablations.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2012-12-12)
Tiffany P Gustafson, Qian Cao, Steven T Wang, Mikhail Y Berezin
PMID23223185
ABSTRACT
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.
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7-(Diethylamino)coumarin-3-carboxylic acid, BioReagent, suitable for fluorescence, ≥98.0% (HPCE)