High-quality water-soluble and surface-functionalized upconversion nanocrystals as luminescent probes for bioimaging

Biomaterials

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2959-2968

  Cao, Tianye ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Gao, Yuan ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Li, Zhengquan ^b   Li, Fuyou ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lymph bioimaging; Nanophosphors; One step synthesis; Upconversion luminescence

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BIO-IMAGING; BIOLABELS; BIOLOGICAL LUMINESCENT LABEL; FOLIC ACIDS; FOURIER; FREE AMINES; FUNCTIONALIZED; HIGH QUALITY WATER; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HYDROTHERMAL REACTION; LUMINESCENT PROBES; MOLAR RATIO; NANOPHOSPHORS; NEAR INFRARED; NUCLEAR GENERATION; ONE-STEP SYNTHESIS; SMALL ANIMAL; SURFACE LIGANDS; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES; UP-CONVERSION; UPCONVERSION LUMINESCENCE; UPCONVERSION NANOCRYSTALS; WATER SOLUBILITIES;

ANIMALS; BODY FLUIDS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRYSTAL GROWTH; FADING (RADIO); FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC ACIDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

LUMINESCENCE;

AMINE; AMINOCAPROIC ACID; FOLIC ACID; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LUMINESCENT AGENT; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE; OLEIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UPCONVERSION NANOPHOSPHOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LUMINESCENCE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79951578184     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.12.050     Document Type: Article

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