Nonblinking carbon dots for imaging and tracking receptors on a live cell membrane
Qian Wang, Zhenzhen Feng, Hua He, Xiang Hu, Jian Mao, Xiaoliang Chen, Lihua Liu, Xiaoyun Wei, Di Liu, Simin Bi, Xiaojuan Wang, Baosheng Ge, Daoyong Yu, Fang Huang
Abstract
Blinking occurs with nearly all fluorophores including organic dyes, fluorescent proteins, semiconductor quantum dots and carbon dots (CDs). We developed non-blinking and photoresistant fluorescent CDs by introducing multiple aromatic domains onto a single carbon dot and demonstrated their great potential for imaging and tracking of receptors on a live cell membrane.
Topics & Concepts
StackingReceptorLive cell imagingMembraneTracking (education)Carbon fibersNanotechnologyCell membraneCellBiophysicsMaterials scienceChemistryBiologyBiochemistryOrganic chemistryComposite materialComposite numberPedagogyPsychologyCarbon and Quantum Dots ApplicationsLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques