Table 3.
Fluorescent silica NPs from HST and Microsphere-Nanosphere.
| Company | Brand | Fluorescence Exmax/Emmax (nm) |
Available size (µm) | Functional groups |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hybrid Silica Technologies | C•spec® | FITC, Rhodamine Green (488/517) ATTO488(501/523) TRITC (550/570) Texas Red(596/617) Cy5 (650/670) Cy5.5 (675/694 ) ATTO647N, ATTO647 (644/669) |
0.01, 0.025, 0.045, 0.075, 0.1, 0.5 | NHS ester, Carboxyl, amine, Maleimide, streptavidin, PEG, PEI, Cyclic RGD, TAT peptide |
| Microsphere-Nanosphere | Blue (354/450) | 0.05, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 4 | non-modified | |
| Green (485/510) | 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 | non-modified | ||
| 0.05, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5 | Amine, Carboxyl | |||
| Red (569/585,) | 0.05, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 3, 4, 5, 10 | non modified or Amine |