Enhanced optical property of Au coated polystyrene beads for multi-color quantum dots encoding.
A novel quantum dots (QDs) fluorescent encoding method was demonstrated in this paper by using Au coated polystyrene (Au @ PS) beads. In the experiments, Au nanoparticles were deposited onto the polystyrene bead to form a stable Au coating through Layer-by-Layer assembly, and the surface morphology of the Au @ PS beads was studied by Scanning Electronic Microscope (SEM). Furthermore, the QDs encoding abilities, including the loading of QDs, the anti-photo bleaching ability and the multi-color encoding feasibility were studied using Au @ PS beads. The QDs leakage from doped QDs encoded Au @ PS was also studied. This study shows that Au particles improve the QDs encoding performance and the QD-encoded Au @ PS beads are the ideal material for the optical encoding.
Cao
Yuan-Cheng
YC
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education - Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, PR China.
Wang
Zhan
Z
Wang
Hai-Qiao
HQ
Wang
Jian-Hao
JH
Hua
Xiao-Feng
XF
Jin
Xin
X
Yang
Liang
L
Huang
Zhen-Li
ZL
Liu
Man-Xi
MX
Zhao
Yuan-Di
YD