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ISSN 2410-7751 (Print)
ISSN 2410-776X (Online)

4 2014

"Biotechnologia Acta" v. 7, no 4, 2014
https://doi.org/10.15407/biotech7.04.009
Р. 9-24, Bibliography 111, Ukrainian.
Universal Decimal classification: 577.1; 60-022.513.2

ULTRAFINE FLUORESCENT DIAMONDS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

Kanyuk M. I.

Palladian Biochemistry Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv

The purpose of the work is to summarize the literature data concerning ultrafine diamonds, namely their industrial production, as well as considerable photostability and biocompatibility that promote their use in modern visualization techniques. It is shown that due to the unique physical properties, they are promising materials for using in nanotechnology in the near future. Possibility of diverse surface modification, small size and large absorption surface are the basis for their use in different approaches for drug and gene delivery into a cell. The changes in the properties of nanodiamond surface modification methods of their creation, stabilization and applications are described. It can be said that fluorescent surface-modified nanodiamonds are a promising target in various research methods that would be widely used for labeling of living cells, as well as in the processes of genes and drugs delivery into a cell.

Key words: ultrafluorescent diamonds, genes and drugs delivery into a cell.

© Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2014