Published date: Apr 17 2018

Journal Title: KnE Energy

Issue title: The 2nd International Symposium "Physics, Engineering and Technologies for Biomedicine"

Pages: 305–310

DOI: 10.18502/ken.v3i2.1827

G O Nifontova

A V Sukhanova

P S Samokhvalov

I R Nabievigor.nabiev@gmail.com

Polyelectrolyte microcapsules development and further use as specific carriers for drug molecules, fluorescent dyes, and metal nanoparticles is a promising approach to designing theranostic agents. Semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots exhibiting size-dependent optical properties, a high photostability, and optimal fluorescent properties can be advantageous over classical organic fluorophores. The results of elaboration of efficient encoding of matrix microparticles with nanocrystals for development of fluorescent polyelectrolyte microcapsules and the characteristics of the obtained encoded microbeads are demonstrated.

Keywords: Semiconductor nanocrystals; encoding of matrix microbeads; theranostic agents, polyelectrolyte microcapsules, layer-by-layer technique.

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