Highly fluorescent hyperbranched BODIPY-based conjugated polymer dots for cellular imaging.

Rongxin DuShuang CuiZezhou SunMing LiuYong ZhangQiong WuChangfeng WuFengyun GuoLiancheng Zhao

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2018)

The first hyperbranched BODIPY-based conjugated polymer dots (Pdots) were reported. The Pdots showed quantum yields of as high as 22%, which is 40% higher than their linear counterparts. The Pdots were successfully applied in cell-labelling applications. These results demonstrated that hyperbranched polymers are a very promising material for biological imaging and applications.

Keyphrases

fluorescent probe
living cells
high resolution
photodynamic therapy
quantum dots
stem cells
molecularly imprinted
cell therapy
fluorescence imaging
bone marrow
energy transfer
tandem mass spectrometry