title: Highly luminescent and photostable core-shell dye nanoparticles for high efficiency bioimaging.
abstract: We developed core-shell silica-coated dye nanoparticles as highly bright and ultrastable red-emitting fluorescent probes for long-term cellular imaging and ultrasensitive in vivo animal imaging.
authors.affiliation: Functional Nano & Soft Materials Laboratory (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China. xjzhang@suda.edu.cn jsjie@suda.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xiaojun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Mengjiao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xiujuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jiansheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jie
authors.forename: Caitong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xiaohong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000737:chemistry; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D061848:Optical Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012822:Silicon Dioxide