Novel colour-centre diamond nanocrystals for optical biomedical imaging
Speaker: Bradley Smith, ITEE
When: 2007-04-03 10:00:00
Venue: 78-622
Host: Dr Andrei Zvyagin
Abstract:The application of optical labels to biological and biomedical
imaging allows specific sites or even single molecules to be
discriminated from the cell background in real time, with sub-micron
resolution.
This technology is the cornerstone of many discoveries in the Life
Sciences. There still exists, however, the need to develop more
ideal optical labels with merits such as photostability, biochemical
inertness and sub--10 nanometer size. This project attempts to
develop luminescent nanodiamond as a new probe to fill this niche
and provide the possibility of background free, extended
single-molecule observations in vivo.
Biography:(biography unavailable)
Type: Ph.D confirmation
Contact:Dr Andrei Zvyagin, seminar host (zvyagin@physics.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)