Projektnummer

0062448

Zusammenfassung

Bacterial infections are one of the major causes of death around the world and an increasing problem due to antibiotic resistance. An ideal diagnostic tool could provide fast and reliable information about a bacterial contamination without sample taking, isolation, purification or culturing. So far, such a technology does not exist.In this project fluorescent nanosensors that are able to identify bacteria and meet these criteria will be developed based on near infrared (nIR) fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) as building blocks. SWCNTs fluoresce in the advantageous nIR...