Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 30, Pages 15128-15135Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2jm31368e
Keywords
-
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [21074113]
- key project of the Ministry of Sci. & Technol. of China [2009CB623605]
- Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Z4110056]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [603509, HKUST2/CRF/10, 604711]
- SRFI grant of HKUST [SRFI11SC03PG]
- NSFC/RGC [N_HKUST620/11]
- University Grants Committee of Hong Kong [AoE/P-03/08]
- National Research Foundation of Singapore [R279-000-323-281]
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering of Singapore [IMRE/11-1C0213]
- Cao Guangbiao Foundation of Zhejiang University
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Organic fluorescent probes are widely used in bioimaging and bioassays, but the notorious photobleaching hampers their applications. Encapsulation of organic dyes into nanoparticles (NPs) is an effective strategy to minimize photobleaching, but classical organic dye molecules tend to have their fluorescence quenched in aggregate states, which is termed aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ). Here we demonstrate our attempt to tackle this problem through the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) strategy. 3,4: 9,10-Tetracarboxylic perylene bisimide (PBI) is a well-known organic dye with a serious ACQ problem. By attaching two tetraphenylethene (TPE) moieties to the 1,7-positions, the ACQ-characteristic PBI-derivative was converted to an AIE-characteristic molecule. The obtained PBI derivative (BTPEPBI) exhibits several advantages over classical PBI derivatives, including pronounced fluorescence enhancement in aggregate state, red to near infrared emission, and facile fabrication into uniform NPs. Studies on the staining of MCF-7 breast cancer cells and in vivo imaging of a tumor-bearing mouse model with BTPEPBI-containing NPs reveal that they are effective fluorescent probes for cancer cell and in vivo tumor diagnosis with high specificity, high photostability and good fluorescence contrast.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available