"Smart" Theranostic Lanthanide Nanoprobes with Simultaneous Upconversion fluorescence and Tunable T1-T2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast and Near-Infrared Activated Photodynamic Therapy

Nanoscale , 2014, Accepted Manuscript

DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01717J, Paper

Timothy Thatt Yang Tan, Yan Zhang, Gautom Kumar Das, Vimalan Vijayaragavan, Qingchi Xu, Parasuraman Padmanabhan, Kishore K. Bhakoo, Subramanian Tamil Selvan

The current work reports a type of "smart" lanthanide-based theranostic NaDyF4:Yb3+/NaGdF4:Yb3+,Er3+ nanoprobes, which are able to circumvent the up-converting poisoning effect of Dy3+ ions to give efficient near infrared (980...

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