Size, charge, and interactions with giant lipid vesicles of quantum dots coated with an amphiphilic macromolecule

Semiconductor colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are promising fluorescent probes for biology. Initially synthesized in organic solvents, they can be dispersed in aqueous solution by noncovalent coating with amphiphilic macromolecules, which renders the particles hydrophilic and modifies their interaction...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 22(2006), 5 vom: 28. Feb., Seite 2304-10
1. Verfasser: Luccardini, C (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Tribet, C, Vial, F, Marchi-Artzner, V, Dahan, M
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2006
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Coated Materials, Biocompatible Colloids Liposomes Macromolecular Substances
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520 |a Semiconductor colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are promising fluorescent probes for biology. Initially synthesized in organic solvents, they can be dispersed in aqueous solution by noncovalent coating with amphiphilic macromolecules, which renders the particles hydrophilic and modifies their interactions with other biological compounds. Here, after coating QDs with an alkyl-modified polyacrilic acid, we investigated their colloidal properties in aqueous buffers by electrophoresis, electron microscopy, light scattering, and rate zonal centrifugation. Despite polymer dispersity and variation of the size of the inorganic nanoparticles, the polymer-dot complexes appeared relatively well-defined in terms of hydrodynamic radius and surface charge. Our data show that these complexes contain isolated QD surrounded by a polymer layer with thickness 8-10 nm. We then analyzed their interaction with giant unilamellar vesicles, either neutral or cationic, by optical microscopy. At neutral pH, we found the absence of binding of the coated particles to lipid membrane, irrespective of their lipid composition. An abrupt surface aggregation of the nanoparticles on the lipid membrane was observed in a narrow pH range (6.0-6.2), indicative of critical binding triggered by polymer properties. The overall features of QDs coated with amphiphilic polymers open the route to using these nanoparticles in vivo as optically stable probes with switchable properties 
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