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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 4.
Published in final edited form as: Small. 2010 Oct 4;6(19):2109–2113. doi: 10.1002/smll.201000855

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Electrochemically controlled delivery of QDs into a living cell. a) Schematic describing the delivery and release principle of cargo through a membrane penetrating nanoneedle: applying a potential larger than the critical potential (~1.0 V) to the nanoneedle induces desorption of a SAM and thus release of QDs. b) Procedure for surface functionalization of a gold-coated nanoneedle and attachment of streptavidin-coated QDs.