Upconversion: Road to El dorado of the fluorescence world

Luminescence

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 290-293

  Ong, Li Ching ^a   Gnanasammandhan, Muthu Kumara ^a   Nagarajan, Sounderya ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biological applications; Imaging; Nanoparticles; Ucn; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

FLUOROPHORES; GENE TRANSFER; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; CELL IMAGING; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; GENE DELIVERY; PROPERTY; UCN; UP-CONVERSION; UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 77956750190     PISSN: 15227235     EISSN: 15227243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bio.1229     Document Type: Article

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