A biophotonics project has been started in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The project aims to develop a special type of nanobiophotonics technology based on quantum dots. Such systems represent a relatively new concept in physics, but they have been associated with a host of extremely fascinating and technically useful phenomena. Their unique properties have been found to be especially useful in the field of biological imaging.
Biological imaging can involve the imaging of anything from biological molecules, proteins, enzymes and cells to organelles, tissues or even entire organs. Quantum dots have been shown to possess excellent properties that are particularly useful in imaging proteins and other objects inside cells, living or dead.