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A Novel Method To Prepare Cysteine Capped Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Oluwatobi Samuel Oluwafemi  and
Neerish Revaprasadu
Oluwatobi Samuel Oluwafemi
Affiliation:
tobi_55@yahoo.com, University of Zululand, Chemistry, Private Bag X1001, kwadlangezwa, 3886, South Africa, +27765110322, +27359026568
Neerish Revaprasadu
Affiliation:
nrevapra@pan.uzulu.ac.za, University of Zululand, Chemistry, Private Bag X1001, kwadlangezwa, 3886, South Africa
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Abstract

Water dispersable and potentially biocompatible L-cysteine-capped CdSe nanoparticles with a narrow size distribution and blue fluoresence have been synthesized by a facile method without using any additional stabilizer. FTIR study shows that CdSe nanoparticles are capped through mercapto-group of the amino acid cysteine whilst its free amino and carboxylate groups make it amenable to bio-conjugation establishing the possibility of using these as fluorescent biomarkers.

Keywords

CdSeinfrared (IR) spectroscopy
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 951: Symposium E – Nanofunctional Materials, Nanostructures and Novel Devices for Biological and Chemical Detection , 2006 , 0951-E03-12
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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