Collaborations

Characterization and Application of Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles (C dots)
Ulrich Wiesner, Professor of Materials Science, Cornell University.
Funding: NSF through the Cornell Center for Material Research (CCMR).

This is a longstanding collaboration towards the development of multifunctional nanoparticles tailored for in vivo use.  See Aim 3 of Core R&D project I for a description of our current focus: oxygen-sensor development.

References

Larson, D.R., H. Ow, H.D. Vishwasrao, A.A. Heikal, U.B. Weisner, and W.W. Webb, 2008 “Silica Nanoparticle Architecture Determines Radiative Properties of Fluorophores” Chem. Mater., 20 (8), pp 2677–2684

Choi, J., Burns, A A., Williams, R.M., Zhou, Z., Flesken-Nikitin, A., Zipfel, WR., Wiesner, U., and Nikitin, A. Yu. 2007. Core-shell silica nanoparticles as fluorescent biological labels for nanomedicine applications. . J Biomed Opt 12(6):064007.

Ow, H., D.R. Larson, M. Srivastava, B.A. Baird, W.W. Webb, and U. Wiesner, “Bright and Stable Core-Shell Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles,” Nano Letters 5 (1), 113-117, 2005