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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
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.