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@article{204187,
        author = {Bhagyashri Bhure and Suresh Waghmare},
        title = {Tetracycline conjugated Quantum Dots for Simultaneous Imaging and antibacterial therapy},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1571-1582},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=204187},
        abstract = {Quantum dots (QDs) are a landmark development in the field of nanotechnology. These zero-dimensional semiconductors, unlike their physical attributes, have enormous capacity to store energy within themselves. This is contained in several thousand electrons that constitute the nanoparticles. Quantum dots excel at a myriad pf physical properties, most notably their fluorescent properties, such as high quantum yield, photo-stability, broad absorption spectra, and their remarkable size-dependent emission-tunability. QDs can absorb and re-emit the incoming radiation in the desired direction with the tunable spectrum, which renders them favorable for building integration. There are host of potential applications for QDs including solar cells, LEDs, medical imaging, biosensing, single electron transistors, and a host of other electronic products. The synthesis of tetracycline QDs typically involves surface functionalization of QDs followed by covalent or non-covalent attachment of tetracycline molecules. These conjugated systems exhibit excellent fluorescence properties, enabling their application in bioimaging, targeted drug delivery, and bacterial detection. Overall, tetracycline-conjugated quantum dots provide a multifunctional platform that integrates diagnosis and therapy, offering significant potential in biomedical research, especially in infection imaging and targeted antimicrobial treatment.},
        keywords = {QDs, Core-type QDs, Nanotechnology, nanomedicine, nanoparticle, Bionanotechnology, Targeted Therapy, Semiconductor Nanocrystals.},
        month = {June},
        }