Biological Applications of Colloidal Nanoparticles

Two ideas for applications in which colloidal nanoparticles are used to interface cells are discussed. For this the report will be structured in three parts. In the first part the colloidal nanoparticles and in particular their surface chemistry will be discussed. In the second part a nanoparticles based FRET system for the detection of intracellular ions will be reported. In the third part an alternative system for the detection of intracellular ions based on polymer capsules/nanoparticles based will be described With a very general procedure inorganic hydrophobic nanoparticles of different materials can be tra…