Recent advances in the development of highly luminescent semiconducting polymer dots and nanoparticles for biological imaging and medicine

J Yu, Y Rong, CT Kuo, XH Zhou, DT Chiu - Analytical chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) have been developed as a brightly emissive
nanoprobe for biological analysis and imaging, as well as for diagnosis and drug delivery …

Semiconducting polymer dots as fluorescent probes for in vitro biosensing

X Bai, K Wang, L Chen, J Zhou, J Wang - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) have emerged as novel fluorescent probes with
excellent characteristics, such as ultrahigh molar extinction coefficient, easy tunable …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor diagnosis using carbon-based quantum dots: Detection based on the hallmarks of cancer

H Wang, S Yang, L Chen, Y Li, P He, G Wang, H Dong… - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon-based quantum dots (CQDs) have been shown to have promising application value
in tumor diagnosis. Their use, however, is severely hindered by the complicated nature of …

Self-assembly of monodisperse carbon dots into high-brightness nanoaggregates for cellular uptake imaging and iron (III) sensing

TH Chen, WL Tseng - Analytical chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
This study describes a bottom-up assembly route for monodisperse carbon dots (CDs) into
different sizes of CD aggregates through the control of the concentration of fatty acids. The …

Near-infrared light-responsive semiconductor polymer composite hydrogels: spatial/temporal-controlled release via a photothermal “sponge” effect

Y Wu, K Wang, S Huang, C Yang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Near-infrared (NIR) light-responsive hydrogels are important for biomedical applications,
such as remote-controlled release, but the NIR agents previously used were largely limited …

Amplified fluorescence from polyfluorene nanoparticles with dual state emission and aggregation caused red shifted emission for live cell imaging and cancer …

B Muthuraj, S Mukherjee, CR Patra… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A newly synthesized polyfluorene derivative with pendant di (2-picolyl) amine (PF–DPA)
shows dual state emission and aggregation caused red shifted emission that was utilized for …

Architectures and applications of bodipy-based conjugated polymers

Y Fan, J Zhang, Z Hong, H Qiu, Y Li, S Yin - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Conjugated polymers generally contain conjugated backbone structures with benzene,
heterocycle, double bond, or triple bond, so that they have properties similar to …

Lanthanide‐Coordinated Semiconducting Polymer Dots Used for Flow Cytometry and Mass Cytometry

X Wu, Q DeGottardi, IC Wu, J Yu, L Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous monitoring of biomarkers as well as single‐cell analyses based on flow
cytometry and mass cytometry are important for investigations of disease mechanisms, drug …

Narrow-band polymer dots with pronounced fluorescence fluctuations for dual-color super-resolution imaging

Z Liu, J Liu, Z Zhang, Z Sun, X Shao, J Guo, L Xi… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI) produces fast, background-free, super-
resolved images by analyzing the temporal fluorescence fluctuations of independent …

Highly fluorescent hyperbranched BODIPY-based conjugated polymer dots for cellular imaging

R Du, S Cui, Z Sun, M Liu, Y Zhang, Q Wu… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The first hyperbranched BODIPY-based conjugated polymer dots (Pdots) were reported. The
Pdots showed quantum yields of as high as 22%, which is 40% higher than their linear …