title: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using quantum dots: advances, challenges and opportunities.
abstract: Semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) have been increasingly employed in measuring the dynamic behavior of biomacromolecules using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. This poses a challenge, because quantum dots display their own dynamic behavior in the form of intermittent photoluminescence, also known as blinking. In this review, the manifestation of blinking in correlation spectroscopy will be explored, preceded by an examination of quantum dot blinking in general.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.
authors: Romey F
authors: RF
authors: Heuff
authors: Jody L
authors: JL
authors: Swift
authors: David T
authors: DT
authors: Cramb
mesh_terms: D049449:Luminescence; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000737:chemistry*; D045663:Quantum Dots; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances