Chemical Communications 2011-04-14

Engineering multifunctional magnetic-quantum dot barcodes by flow focusing.

Supratim Giri, Dawei Li, Warren C W Chan

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 47(14) , 4195-7, (2011)

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Abstract

A simple one-step flow focusing method was used to embed both magnetic nanoparticles and quantum dots in microbeads in controlled ratios to generate a large library of molecular barcodes for biological applications.