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Plant Cell Imaging Based on Nanodiamonds with Excitation-Dependent Fluorescence.

Li-Xia SuQing LouZhen JiaoChong-Xin Shan
Published in: Nanoscale research letters (2016)
Despite extensive work on fluorescence behavior stemming from color centers of diamond, reports on the excitation-dependent fluorescence of nanodiamonds (NDs) with a large-scale redshift from 400 to 620 nm under different excitation wavelengths are so far much fewer, especially in biological applications. The fluorescence can be attributed to the combined effects of the fraction of sp(2)-hybridized carbon atoms among the surface of the fine diamond nanoparticles and the defect energy trapping states on the surface of the diamond. The excitation-dependent fluorescent NDs have been applied in plant cell imaging for the first time. The results reported in this paper may provide a promising route to multiple-color bioimaging using NDs.
Keyphrases
  • energy transfer
  • quantum dots
  • single molecule
  • high resolution
  • single cell
  • cell therapy
  • living cells
  • stem cells
  • photodynamic therapy
  • air pollution
  • soft tissue
  • cell wall
  • drug induced
  • plant growth