Evaluating the potential of using quantum dots for monitoring electrical signals in neurons

Fully integrated silicon probes for high-density recording of neural activity

(2017) James J. Jun et al.   NATURE

Quantum dot-mediated delivery of siRNA to inhibit sphingomyelinase activities in brain-derived cells

(2016) Ted Getz et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Origin and control of blinking in quantum dots

(2016) Alexander L. Efros et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Meta-analysis of cellular toxicity for cadmium-containing quantum dots

(2016) Eunkeu Oh et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Controlled interaction of nanoparticles with cells

(2016) W. J. Parak   SCIENCE

Enhanced cell membrane enrichment and subsequent cellular internalization of quantum dots via cell surface engineering: illuminating plasma membranes with quantum dots

(2016) Hong-Yin Wang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Delivery and Tracking of Quantum Dot Peptide Bioconjugates in an Intact Developing Avian Brain

(2015) Rishabh Agarwal et al.   ACS Chemical Neuroscience

The Role of Negative Charge in the Delivery of Quantum Dots to Neurons

(2015) Ryan Walters et al.   ASN Neuro

Synthetic Developments of Nontoxic Quantum Dots

(2015) Adita Das et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Improved PeT Molecules for Optically Sensing Voltage in Neurons

(2015) Clifford R. Woodford et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electric Field Modulation of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Photoluminescence: Insights Into the Design of Robust Voltage-Sensitive Cellular Imaging Probes

(2015) Clare E. Rowland et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanocrystals of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX3, X = Cl, Br, and I): Novel Optoelectronic Materials Showing Bright Emission with Wide Color Gamut

(2015) Loredana Protesescu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Light-sheet imaging for systems neuroscience

(2015) Philipp J Keller et al.   NATURE METHODS

In vivo integrity of polymer-coated gold nanoparticles

(2015) Wolfgang G. Kreyling et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Swept confocally-aligned planar excitation (SCAPE) microscopy for high-speed volumetric imaging of behaving organisms

(2015) Matthew B. Bouchard et al.   Nature Photonics

Visualizing Whole-Brain Activity and Development at the Single-Cell Level Using Light-Sheet Microscopy

(2015) Philipp J. Keller et al.   NEURON

InP Quantum Dots: An Environmentally Friendly Material with Resonance Energy Transfer Requisites

(2014) Anoop Thomas et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Light-sheet functional imaging in fictively behaving zebrafish

(2014) Nikita Vladimirov et al.   NATURE METHODS

Quantum dot–based multiphoton fluorescent pipettes for targeted neuronal electrophysiology

(2014) Bertalan K Andrásfalvy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Simultaneous whole-animal 3D imaging of neuronal activity using light-field microscopy

(2014) Robert Prevedel et al.   NATURE METHODS

Particle-Based Optical Sensing of Intracellular Ions at the Example of Calcium - What Are the Experimental Pitfalls?

(2014) Karsten Kantner et al.   Small

Nanotools for Neuroscience and Brain Activity Mapping

(2013) A. Paul Alivisatos et al.   ACS Nano

Optical Strategies for Sensing Neuronal Voltage Using Quantum Dots and Other Semiconductor Nanocrystals

(2013) Jesse D. Marshall et al.   ACS Nano

Selecting Improved Peptidyl Motifs for Cytosolic Delivery of Disparate Protein and Nanoparticle Materials

(2013) Kelly Boeneman et al.   ACS Nano

Origins of Low Quantum Efficiencies in Quantum Dot LEDs

(2013) Deniz Bozyigit et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Cytotoxicity of Quantum Dots Used for In Vitro Cellular Labeling: Role of QD Surface Ligand, Delivery Modality, Cell Type, and Direct Comparison to Organic Fluorophores

(2013) Christopher E. Bradburne et al.   BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY

Site-specific cellular delivery of quantum dots with chemoselectively-assembled modular peptides

(2013) James B. Delehanty et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Emerging non-traditional Förster resonance energy transfer configurations with semiconductor quantum dots: Investigations and applications

(2013) W. Russ Algar et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity

(2013) Tsai-Wen Chen et al.   NATURE

Cortical connectivity and sensory coding

(2013) Kenneth D. Harris et al.   NATURE

Multi-electrode array technologies for neuroscience and cardiology

(2013) Micha E. Spira et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

The Brain Activity Map

(2013) A. P. Alivisatos et al.   SCIENCE

Structural and Functional Brain Networks: From Connections to Cognition

(2013) H.-J. Park et al.   SCIENCE

Single Molecule Quantum-Confined Stark Effect Measurements of Semiconductor Nanoparticles at Room Temperature

(2012) KyoungWon Park et al.   ACS Nano

Nanoparticle Targeting to Neurons in a Rat Hippocampal Slice Culture Model

(2012) Ryan Walters et al.   ASN Neuro

An evaluation of in vivo voltage-sensitive dyes: pharmacological side effects and signal-to-noise ratios after effective removal of brain-pulsation artifacts

(2012) T. H. Grandy et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Optimization of a GCaMP Calcium Indicator for Neural Activity Imaging

(2012) J. Akerboom et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Nonlinear dendritic integration of sensory and motor input during an active sensing task

(2012) Ning-long Xu et al.   NATURE

A pilot study in non-human primates shows no adverse response to intravenous injection of quantum dots

(2012) Ling Ye et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Structural neurobiology: missing link to a mechanistic understanding of neural computation

(2012) Winfried Denk et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Optically monitoring voltage in neurons by photo-induced electron transfer through molecular wires

(2012) E. W. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Geometric Structure of the Brain Fiber Pathways

(2012) V. J. Wedeen et al.   SCIENCE

Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Bioanalysis: Crossing the Valley of Death

(2011) W. Russ Algar et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Electrical control of photoluminescence wavelength from semiconductor quantum dots in a ferroelectric polymer matrix

(2011) Rafał Korlacki et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Spike Sorting: The First Step in Decoding the Brain: The first step in decoding the brain

(2011) S. Gibson et al.   IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE

Spatiotemporal Multicolor Labeling of Individual Cells Using Peptide-Functionalized Quantum Dots and Mixed Delivery Techniques

(2011) James B. Delehanty et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multifunctional Compact Zwitterionic Ligands for Preparing Robust Biocompatible Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Gold Nanoparticles

(2011) Kimihiro Susumu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Two types of luminescence blinking revealed by spectroelectrochemistry of single quantum dots

(2011) Christophe Galland et al.   NATURE

Deep and fast live imaging with two-photon scanned light-sheet microscopy

(2011) Thai V Truong et al.   NATURE METHODS

How advances in neural recording affect data analysis

(2011) Ian H Stevenson et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Imaging Voltage in Neurons

(2011) Darcy S. Peterka et al.   NEURON

Delivering quantum dot-peptide bioconjugates to the cellular cytosol: escaping from the endolysosomal system

(2010) James B. Delehanty et al.   Integrative Biology

Synthesis of Extremely Small CdSe and Bright Blue Luminescent CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticles by a Prefocused Hot-Injection Approach

(2009) Richard Karel Čapek et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Voltage-sensitive dye imaging: Technique review and models

(2009) S. Chemla et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-PARIS

Two-Photon Absorbing Nanocrystal Sensors for Ratiometric Detection of Oxygen

(2009) Emily J. McLaurin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electrophysiology in the age of light

(2009) Massimo Scanziani et al.   NATURE

Luminescence in quantum-confined cadmium selenide nanocrystals and nanorods in external electric fields

(2009) L. I. Gurinovich et al.   SEMICONDUCTORS

“Giant” Multishell CdSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots with Suppressed Blinking

(2008) Yongfen Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

What we can do and what we cannot do with fMRI

(2008) Nikos K. Logothetis   NATURE

Imaging cortical electrical stimulation in vivo: fast intrinsic optical signal versus voltage-sensitive dyes

(2008) Vassiliy Tsytsarev et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Microelectrodes, Microelectronics, and Implantable Neural Microsystems

(2008) K.D. Wise et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE