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Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles: Extending the Frontiers of Brightness

2011; Wiley; Volume: 50; Issue: 18 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/anie.201004996

1521-3773

Sara Bonacchi, Damiano Genovese, Riccardo Juris, Marco Montalti, Luca Prodi, Enrico Rampazzo, Nelsi Zaccheroni,

Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Silica nanoparticles are versatile platforms with many intrinsic features, such as low toxicity. Proper design and derivatization yields particularly stable colloids, even in physiological conditions, and provides them with multiple functions. A suitable choice of dyes and synthetic strategy may, in particular, yield a very bright nanosystem. Silica nanoparticles thus offer unique potential in the nanotechnology arena, and further improvement and optimization could substantially increase their application in fields of high social and economic impact, such as medical diagnostics and therapy, environmental and food analysis, and security. This paper describes silica-based, multicomponent nanosystems with intrinsic directional energy- and electron-transfer processes, on which highly valued functions like light harvesting and signal amplification are based.