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Chemical Communications

Design of irreversible optical nanothermometers for thermal ablations†

Tiffany P. Gustafson,a   Qian Cao,a   Steven T. Wanga  and  Mikhail Y. Berezin*a  

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a Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
E-mail: berezinm@mir.wustl.edu
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Tel: +1 314 747 0701

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.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC37271A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Oct 2012
Accepted
23 Nov 2012
First published
23 Nov 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 680-682

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Design of irreversible optical nanothermometers for thermal ablations

T. P. Gustafson, Q. Cao, S. T. Wang and M. Y. Berezin, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 680 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37271A

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