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Year: | 2007 | ||||
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Journal: | Nano Letters | Volume: | 7 | ||||
Number: | 4 | Pages: | 861-867 | ||||
Month: | APR 2007 | ||||||
Note: | PT: J; TC: 110; UT: WOS:000245600500002 |
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Abstract: | Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) form heterostructured complexes that can be utilized as multimodal bioimaging agents. Fe catalyst-grown SWNT were individually dispersed in aqueous solution via encapsulation by oligonucleotides with the sequence d(GT)(15), and enriched using a 0.5 T magnetic array. The resulting nanotube complexes show distinct NIR fluorescence, Raman scattering, and visible/NIR absorbance features, corresponding to the various nanotube species. AFM and cryo-TEM images show DNA-encapsulated complexes composed of a similar to 3 nm particle attached to a carbon nanotube on one end. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) measurements reveal that the nanoparticles are primarily Fe2O3 and superparamagnetic. The Fe2O3 particle-enriched nanotube solution has a magnetic particle content of similar to 35 wt %, a magnetization saturation of similar to 56 emu/g, and a magnetic relaxation time scale ratio (T-1/T-2) of approximately 12. These complexes have a longer spin-spin relaxation time (T-2 similar to 164 ms) than typical ferromagnetic particles due to the smaller size of their magnetic component while still retaining SWNT optical signatures. Macrophage cells that engulf the DNA-wrapped complexes were imaged using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and NIR mapping, demonstrating that these multifunctional nanostructures could potentially be useful in multimodal biomedical imaging. |
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