Encapsulation of NIR-II AIEgens in Virus-like Particles for Bioimaging

Autor: Fangfang Xia, Weiwei Zhu, Yue Sun, Li Runhao, Xuehong Min, Wei Zhou, Shi-Qi Cheng, Juan Zhang, Ming Li, Feng Li
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13:17372-17379
ISSN: 1944-8252
1944-8244
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c02691
Popis: The development of organic nanoparticles that fluoresce in the near-infrared, especially in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window, improves in vivo fluorescence imaging due to deeper penetration and higher spatiotemporal resolution. We report two kinds of NIR-II fluorescent molecules with twisted intramolecular charge-transfer (TICT) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics. The virus-like particles (VLPs) of simian virus 40 (SV40) were used as templates to encapsulate the molecules in a well-defined structure (referred to as CH1-SV40 and CH2-SV40). The CH1-SV40 dots exhibited a highly uniform size of 21.5 nm, strong fluorescence, high photostability, and good biocompatibility in vitro and in vivo. Their fluorescence spectrum exhibited a peak at 955 nm, with a tail extending to 1200 nm. Moreover, the CH1-SV40 dots, with a quantum yield of 13.03%, enabled blood vessel imaging and image-guided surgery with a high signal-to-background ratio. Overall, the hybrid nanoparticles represent a new kind of NIR-II AIE nanoprobes for biomedical imaging.
Databáze: OpenAIRE