title: Ultrasensitive, Biocompatible, Self-Calibrating, Multiparametric Temperature Sensors.
abstract: Core-shell quantum dots serve as self-calibrating, ultrasensitive, multiparametric, near-infrared, and biocompatible temperature sensors. They allow temperature measurement with nanometer accuracy in the range 150-373 K, the broadest ever recorded for a nanothermometer, with sensitivities among the highest ever reported, which makes them essentially unique in the panorama of biocompatible nanothermometers with potential for in vivo biological thermal imaging and/or thermoablative therapy.
authors.affiliation: CNR INO SENSOR Lab, Via Branze 45, Brescia, 25123, Italy.|Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2, Canada.
authors.forename: Haiguang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: CNR INO SENSOR Lab, Via Branze 45, Brescia, 25123, Italy.|Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, 971 98, Sweden.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vomiero
authors.affiliation: Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2, Canada.|Institute for Fundamental and Frontier Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, P. R. China.|Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2K6, Canada.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rosei
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000592:standards; D002138:Calibration; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008163:Luminescent Measurements / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D008422:Materials Testing; D045663:Quantum Dots; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013696:Temperature; D013817:Thermography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D014159:Transducers
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials
keywords: fluorescence; quantum dots; self-calibrating; temperature sensors