Chemical Communications 2013-01-25

Design of irreversible optical nanothermometers for thermal ablations.

Tiffany P Gustafson, Qian Cao, Steven T Wang, Mikhail Y Berezin

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 49(7) , 680-2, (2013)

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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.