Fluorescence Thermal Antiquenching of Liposome Encapsulated CdSe Quantum Dots

The green emission semiconductor CdSe quantum dots are successfully encapsulated with lecithoid molecules and transferred into aqueous solution. The liposome-encapsulated CdSe maintain similar emission spectrum properties to free CdSe quantum dots. Fluorescence thermal antiquenching is investigated for the liposome-encapsulated CdSe when the temperature is increased from 20 degrees C to 80 degrees C. The reason of the fluorescence enhancement with increasing the temperature is that the vesicle structure of liposome-encapsulated CdSe becomes the CdSe micell structure over the phase transition temperature of the liposome vesicles, and the corresponding structure variation inducing surface reconstruction of CdSe quantum dots.