Issue 26, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Folic acid-functionalized two-photon absorbing nanoparticles for targeted MCF-7 cancer cell imaging†

Kai Li,a   Yihua Jiang,b   Dan Ding,a   Xinhai Zhang,c   Yutao Liu,a   Jianli Hua,b   Si-Shen Fenga  and  Bin Liu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 4 Engineering Drive 4, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
E-mail: cheliub@nus.edu.sg
Fax: +65 67791936
Tel: +65 65168049

b Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, P. R. China

c Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

We report a facile strategy to synthesize folic acid-functionalized two-photon absorbing (TPA) nanoparticles with aggregation-induced emission for targeted cancer cell imaging using a two-photon fluorescence microscope.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC10739A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Feb 2011
Accepted
03 Mar 2011
First published
18 Mar 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 7323-7325

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Folic acid-functionalized two-photon absorbing nanoparticles for targeted MCF-7 cancer cell imaging

K. Li, Y. Jiang, D. Ding, X. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Hua, S. Feng and B. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 7323 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC10739A

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