Photostable fluorescent organic dots with aggregation-induced emission (AIE dots) for noninvasive long-term cell tracing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Kai ^a,b   Qin, Wei ^c   Ding, Dan ^b   Tomczak, Nikodem ^a   Geng, Junlong ^b   Liu, Rongrong ^a   Liu, Jianzhao ^c   Zhang, Xinhai ^a   Liu, Hongwei ^a   Liu, Bin ^a,b   Tang, Ben Zhong ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; QUANTUM DOT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL TRACKING; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL TRACKING; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEOPLASMS; QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873179175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01150     Document Type: Article

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