Affiliation:
1. Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology , University of California, Berkeley , Berkeley, CA 94720 , USA
Abstract
Abstract
The ability to track and quantify changes in oxygen concentration as a function of disease progression or therapy is crucial to advance targeted chemotherapeutics. New non-invasive sensors must be developed that are small enough to penetrate into tissue and monitor dynamic changes with high resolution in real time. One way to address this challenge is with the use of nanoparticle-based sensors. This review details the design, synthesis, and characterization of optical oxygen sensors that combine a fluorescent semiconductor quantum dot (QD) with an oxygen-responsive phosphorescent molecule. The QD may have multifaceted roles in these constructs, serving as an internal standard for ratiometric sensing, as an antenna for multiphoton absorption, and as an energy transfer donor for the attendant phosphorescent molecule. Solid-state devices may be prepared by embedding the two components in a polymer matrix. Alternatively, solution-phase sensors can be synthesized by covalent conjugation, self-assembly in organic solvents, or micelle encapsulation in aqueous media. Several sensors have been used for biological imaging and oxygen sensing, demonstrating that these constructs can quantify oxygen in biological systems.
Subject
General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry
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