Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Ultralong purely organic aqueous phosphorescence supramolecular polymer for targeted tumor cell imaging

  • Wei-Lei Zhou,
  • Yong Chen,
  • Qilin Yu,
  • Haoyang Zhang,
  • Zhi-Xue Liu,
  • Xian-Yin Dai,
  • Jing-Jing Li,
  • Yu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18520-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Room-temperature phosphorescence has attracted attention for bioimaging, but quenching in aqueous systems is an issue. Here, the authors report on the synthesis of a water soluble organic phosphorescent polymer and demonstrate application is cancer cell targeting and imaging.