Silica shelled and block copolymer encapsulated red-emissive AIE nanoparticles with 50% quantum yield for two-photon excited vascular imaging.
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A polymer and silica co-protection strategy has been developed to encapsulate organic fluorogens with aggregation-induced emission and charge transfer characteristics into small nanoparticles (NPs). The co-pretected NPs show bright red fluorescence (50% quantum yield) with a large two-photon action cross-section (450 GM at 840 nm), which have been sucessfully used for two-photon fluorescence imaging of vasculature of the mouse tibial muscle.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Chemical communications
دوره 51 69 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015