Reborn water-soluble CdTe quantum dots

Anita Lourenço; Teresa Casimiro; Vasco D B Bonifácio

doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2014.03.022

Reborn water-soluble CdTe quantum dots

Talanta. 2014 Jul:125:319-21. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2014.03.022. Epub 2014 Mar 19.

Authors

Anita Lourenço¹, Teresa Casimiro², Vasco D B Bonifácio³

Affiliations

¹ REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal.
² REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal. Electronic address: teresa.casimiro@fct.unl.pt.
³ REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal. Electronic address: vbb@fct.unl.pt.

PMID: 24840450
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2014.03.022

Abstract

Recovery of fully aggregated water-soluble CdTe quantum dots was achieved by simple treatment with a strong base. A deprotonation-triggered disaggregation is postulated to be the main mechanism involved in the quantum dots "reborn" process.

Keywords: Bioimaging; Fluorescence; Water-soluble quantum dots.