Pulsed laser assisted synthesis of gadolinium carbide/carbon shell dots with enhanced magnetic resonance properties.
Nanotechnology
; 30(10): 105705, 2019 Mar 08.
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ABSTRACT
There is now the opportunity for nanomaterials to be utilized in bioapplications with low toxicity, good stability and fine dissolvability. Herein, we present a pulsed laser assisted carbon coating method for nanocrystals, and gadolinium carbide/carbon shell (GC/CS) dots with a face-centered cubic structured gadolinium carbide core that have been synthesized in toluene. Good stability of the GC/CS dots was observed, not only in ethanol but also in the immunoconjugates. The MTT assay revealed immunoconjugates with non/low cytotoxicities. As a type of paramagnetic species, the GC/CS dots revealed excellent enhancement in magnetic resonance imaging at a high magnetic field of 14.1 T at ultra-low concentrations. In terms of the relaxivity values of the 1-3 nm GC/CS sample, both [Formula see text] and [Formula see text] have been dramatically increased to 86.5 mM-1 s-1 and 107.3 mM-1 s-1, respectively, thereby demonstrating the great potential for GC/CS dots to be utilized as advanced magnetic resonance agents for the diagnosis of cancers.
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Nanotechnology
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