Non-blinking and photostable upconverted luminescence from single lanthanide-doped nanocrystals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 10917-10921

  Wu, Shiwei ^a   Han, Gang ^a   Milliron, Delia J ^a   Aloni, Shaul ^a   Altoe, Virginia ^a   Talapin, Dmitri V ^b   Cohen, Bruce E ^a   Schuck, P James ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio imaging; Fluorescence; Nanoparticle; Phosphorescence; Single molecule

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; LANTHANIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; EMBRYO; ENDOCYTOSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; FIBROBLASTS; LANTHANOID SERIES ELEMENTS; LUMINESCENCE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; NIH 3T3 CELLS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLUBILITY; WATER;

EID: 67650504324     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904792106     Document Type: Article

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