Engineering multifunctional magnetic-quantum dot barcodes by flow focusing

Supratim Giri, Dawei Li, Warren CW Chan

Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 4195-4197 | DOI: 10.1039/C0CC05336H 

Abstract

A simple one-step flow focusing method was used to embed both magnetic nanoparticles and quantum dots in microbeads in controlled ratios to generate a large library of molecular barcodes for biological applications.