Folic acid-functionalized two-photon absorbing nanoparticles for targeted MCF-7 cancer cell imaging†
Kai Li,Yihua Jiang,Dan Ding,Xinhai Zhang,Yutao Liu,Jianli Hua,Si-Shen Feng,Bin Liu
Abstract
We report a facile strategy to synthesize folic acid-functionalized two-photon absorbing (TPA) nanoparticles with aggregation-induced emission for targeted cancer cell imaging using a two-photon fluorescence microscope.