title: Photoacoustic Imaging: Semiconducting Oligomer Nanoparticles as an Activatable Photoacoustic Probe with Amplified Brightness for In Vivo Imaging of pH (Adv. Mater. 19/2016).
abstract: Despite the great potential of photoacoustic imaging in the life sciences, the development of smart activatable photoacoustic probes remains elusive. On page 3662, K. Pu and co-workers report a facile nanoengineering approach based on semiconducting oligomer nano-particles to develop ratiometric photoacoustic probes with amplified brightness and enhanced sensing capability for accurate photoacoustic mapping of pH in the tumors of living mice.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 637457, Singapore.
authors.forename: Qingqing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 637457, Singapore.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lyu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 637457, Singapore.
authors.forename: Kanyi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008027:Light; D051379:Mice; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry; D061088:Photoacoustic Techniques / Q000379:methods*
keywords: activatable probes; photoacoustic imaging; semiconducting polymer nanoparticles