"Drawing" upconversion nanophosphors into water through host-guest interaction.
Based on the self-assembly of beta-cyclodextrin and adamantaneacetic acid, a simple and efficient strategy was developed to convert hydrophobic upconversion nanophosphors to biocompatible ones for bioimaging applications.
Liu
Qian
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Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
Li
Chunyan
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Yang
Tianshe
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Yi
Tao
T
Li
Fuyou
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