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Diamond Nanoparticles as Photoluminescent Nanoprobes for Biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Orestis Faklaris
Affiliation:
faklaris@lpqm.ens-cachan.fr, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and CNRS, Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire, UMR 8537, 61 avenue du président Wilson, Cachan, 94235, France
Alexandra Elli
Affiliation:
a.elli@physik.uni-stuttgart.de, Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne and INSERM, Laboratoire Structure-Activité des Biomolécules Normales et Pathologiques, INSERM U829, EA3637, Bâtiment Maupertuis, rue du père Jarlan, Evry, 91025, France
Vandana Joshi
Affiliation:
vandana.joshi@univ-evry.fr, Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne and INSERM, Laboratoire Structure-Activité des Biomolécules Normales et Pathologiques, INSERM U829, EA3637, Bâtiment Maupertuis, rue du père Jarlan, Evry, 91025, France
Thierry Sauvage
Affiliation:
sauvage@cnrs-orleans.fr, CNRS, Centre d'Etude et de Recherche par Irradiation, 3A rue de la Férollerie, Orléans, 45071, France
Jean-Paul Boudou
Affiliation:
jpb.upmc@free.fr, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, BioEmCo, Case 120, 4, Place Jussieu, Paris, 75252, France
Jean-François Roch
Affiliation:
roch@physique.ens-cachan.fr, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and CNRS, Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire, UMR 8537, 61 avenue du président Wilson, Cachan, 94235, France
Patrick Curmi
Affiliation:
pcurmi@univ-evry.fr, Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne and INSERM, Laboratoire Structure-Activité des Biomolécules Normales et Pathologiques, INSERM U829, EA3637, Bâtiment Maupertuis, rue du père Jarlan, Evry, 91025, France
François Treussart
Affiliation:
treussar@physique.ens-cachan.fr, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and CNRS, Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire, UMR 8537, 61 avenue du président Wilson, Cachan, 94235, France
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Abstract

The present work reports our attempt in developing diamond nanoparticles with size<50 nm as photoluminescent nanoprobes for biological applications like biomolecule tracking in living cell.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

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