Figure 1.
Preparation of hydrophilic mercaptosilane-coated SiNC and mSiNC. (A–C) Schemes for chemical etching of the silicon wafer to produce fluorescent SiNCs on the wafer surface (wSiNCs; A), mercaptosilane coating of the wafer (wmSiNCs; B), and removing nanocrystals by mechanical scraping, to produce mercaptosilane-coated SiNCs dispersed in water (mSiNCs; C). These mSiNCs were then purified by Superdex 75 gel filtration HPLC.