Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Upconversion NIR-II fluorophores for mitochondria-targeted cancer imaging and photothermal therapy

  • Hui Zhou,
  • Xiaodong Zeng,
  • Anguo Li,
  • Wenyi Zhou,
  • Lin Tang,
  • Wenbo Hu,
  • Quli Fan,
  • Xianli Meng,
  • Hai Deng,
  • Lian Duan,
  • Yanqin Li,
  • Zixin Deng,
  • Xuechuan Hong,
  • Yuling Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19945-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Currently available mitochondria-targeted fluorescent dyes emit only one color in the visible or NIR-I and their applications are limited. Here, the authors develop upconversion mitochondria-targeted NIR-II fluorophores for synchronous upconversion-mitochondria-targeted cell imaging, in vivo NIR-II osteosarcoma imaging and photothermal efficiency