Red-emitting DPSB-based conjugated polymer nanoparticles with high two-photon brightness for cell membrane imaging

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 6754-6763

  Liu, Peng ^a,b   Li, Shuang ^b   Jin, Yaocheng ^a   Qian, Linghui ^b   Gao, Nengyue ^b   Yao, Shao Q ^b   Huang, Fei ^a   Xu, Qing Hua ^b   Cao, Yong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cell imaging; conjugated polymers; energy transfer; fluorescence; nanoparticles; two photon

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONS; PROBES; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

BASED CONJUGATED POLYMERS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; CELL IMAGING; ELECTRON-DEFICIENT UNITS; INITIAL FEED CONCENTRATION; TWO PHOTON; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE IMAGING;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

2-((1-(2-CHLORO-5-METHYLPHENOXY)-3-TERT-BUTYLAMINO-2-PROPOXY)SUCCINYL)-1,3-DIPALMITOYLGLYCEROYL; BUPRANOLOL; FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; HUMAN; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTON; PROCEDURES; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BUPRANOLOL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONS; POLYMERS;

EID: 84926331449     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00223     Document Type: Article

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