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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2023

Ultra-Small Air-Stable Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Nanoparticles for Anti-Stokes Time-Resolved Imaging.

Bolong Zhang, Kieran D Richards, Beatrice E Jones, Abigail R Collins, Rosie Sanders, Sarah R Needham, Pu Qian, Amoghavarsha Mahadevegowda, Caterina Ducati, Stanley W Botchway and 1 more

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Bolong ZhangDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2955-8409
Kieran D RichardsDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8968-3730
Beatrice E JonesDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0155-6137
Abigail R CollinsDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8073-1943
Rosie SandersCentral Laser Facility, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK.
Sarah R NeedhamCentral Laser Facility, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3311-1036
Pu QianMaterials and Structural Analysis, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Achtseweg Noord 5, 5651 GG, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5888-8546
Amoghavarsha MahadevegowdaDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.
Caterina DucatiDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3366-6442
Stanley W BotchwayCentral Laser Facility, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3268-9303
Rachel C EvansDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2956-4857
University of Cambridge · GBRutherford Appleton Laboratory · GBChinese Academy of Sciences · CNThermo Fisher Scientific (Netherlands) · NL

Funding

Diamond Light Source RG98433Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P030467/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/R513180/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/T517847/1Faraday Institution FIRG001 and FIRG024H2020 European Research Council 818762National Natural Science Foundation of China 22305249
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Image contrast is often limited by background autofluorescence in steady-state bioimaging microscopy. Upconversion bioimaging can overcome this by shifting the emission lifetime and wavelength beyond the autofluorescence window. Here we demonstrate the first example of triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) based lifetime imaging microscopy. A new class of ultra-small nanoparticle (NP) probes based on TTA-UC chromophores encapsulated in an organic-inorganic host has been synthesised. The NPs exhibit bright UC emission (400-500 nm) in aerated aqueous media with a UC lifetime of ≈1 μs, excellent colloidal stability and little cytotoxicity. Proof-of-concept demonstration of TTA-UC lifetime imaging using these NPs shows that the long-lived anti-Stokes emission is easily discriminable from typical autofluorescence. Moreover, fluctuations in the UC lifetime can be used to map local oxygen diffusion across the subcellular structure. Our TTA-UC NPs are highly promising stains for lifetime imaging microscopy, affording excellent image contrast and potential for oxygen mapping that is ripe for further exploitation.

Indexed as

FluorescenceLifetime Imaging MicroscopyNanoparticlesTriplet-Triplet AnnihilationUpconversion

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PMID37647167
PMCPMC10952532
OpenAlexW4386268965

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