Energy Transfer with Semiconductor Quantum Dot Bioconjugates: A Versatile Platform for Biosensing, Energy Harvesting, and Other Developing Applications

Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are one of the more popular nanomaterials currently utilized within biological applications. However, what is not widely appreciated is their growing role as versatile energy transfer (ET) donors and acceptors within a similar biological context. The progress made on integrating QDs and ET in biological configurations and applications is reviewed in detail here. The goal is to provide the reader with (1) an appreciation for what QDs are capable of in this context, (2) how this field has grown over a relatively short time span, and, in particular, (3) how QDs are steadily revolutionizing the development of new biosensors along with a myriad of other photonically…

• CF
  Canada Foundation for Innovation
• MS
  Michael Smith Health Research BC
• IU
  Institut Universitaire de France
• UO
  University of British Columbia
• DT
  Defense Threat Reduction Agency

  Award: B112582M
• NS
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• BC
  British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
• OO
  Office of Naval Research
• UN
  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory