Multifunctional Lipid/Quantum Dot Hybrid Nanocontainers for Controlled Targeting of Live Cells

摘要

Nanocrystal-based organic-inorganic functional hybrid materials with novel,exceptional properties have been explored in recent years because of their potential applications in nano-biotechnology.Viral assembly of inorganic nanoparticles,and their polypeptide and ligand-receptor-mediated organization and protein-templated synthesis are a few examples in this direction.Of utmost interest in this context are lipid molecules because of their unique ability to form a variety of self-organized,supramolecular structures.