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Fabrication of semiconducting polymer-blend dots with strong near-infrared fluorescence and afterglow luminescence for bioimaging

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Fluorescence imaging at longer wavelength and autofluorescence-free imaging were two main strategies to improve the optical imaging performance of traditional near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging, and the design of corresponding imaging agents were heavily explored recently. Herein, polymer-blend dots (PBdots) with strong fluorescence and afterglow luminescence in both NIR-I (700-900 nm) and NIR-II (900-1700 nm) windows were successfully fabricated by encapsulating two functional semiconducting polymers into one nanoparticle. With efficient intra-particle interactions, the PBdots exhibited an afterglow lifetime of 181 s after 730 nm NIR laser activation, which can be activated in vivo. The obtained PBdots with similar emission intensities in NIR-I and NIR-II regions enable fair comparison between different optical imaging modalities, which provides a clear guidance for the choice of suitable imaging modality for different purpose. As the first imaging agents which integrate NIR-II fluorescence imaging and NIR-I afterglow imaging, the PBdots also provide both high resolution and large signal-to-background ratio for blood vessel, lymph node and tumor imaging in living mice.

Semiconducting polymerNIR-IIAfterglow luminescenceMultimodal imaging

Lu, Feng、Li, Lili、Zhao, Ting、Ding, Bingqiang、Liu, Jiawei、Wang, Qi、Xie, Chen、Fan, Quli、Huang, Wei

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Nanjing Univ Posts & Telecommun

2022

Dyes and Pigments

Dyes and Pigments

EISCI
ISSN:0143-7208
年,卷(期):2022.200
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