Facile synthesis and potential bioimaging applications of hybrid upconverting and plasmonic NaGdF4: Yb3+, Er3+/silica/gold nanoparticles

Theranostics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 275-281

  Liu, Sha ^a,b   Chen, Guanying ^a   Ohulchanskyy, Tymish Y ^a   Swihart, Mark T ^a,b   Prasad, Paras N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioimaging; Gold; Nanoparticles; Photoluminescence; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM GADOLINIUM FLUORIDE ERBIUM YTTERBIUM NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLOR; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT INTENSITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RADIOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIOIMAGING.; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; UPCONVERSION;

ERBIUM; GOLD; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL IMAGING; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84878625358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18387640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/thno.4983     Document Type: Article

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