@article{Lan2015, 
author = {Minhuan Lan and Jinfeng Zhang and Xiaoyue Zhu and Pengfei Wang and Xianfeng Chen and Chun-Sing Lee and Wenjun Zhang},
title = {Highly stable organic fluorescent nanorods for living-cell imaging},
year = {2015},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {8},
number = {7},
pages = {2380-2389},
keywords = {cell imaging, organic dye, fluorescent nanorods, DPP},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-015-0748-4},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-015-0748-4},
abstract = {Metal-free, organic-dye-based fluorescent nanorods were fabricated through a simple solvent-exchange procedure. The as-prepared nanorods exhibit low toxicity to living cells and excellent photostability. Furthermore, they are stable in solutions of various pHs and high ionic strength and in solutions with interfering metal ions. Compared with the free DPP-Br molecules in THF, these nanorods exhibit larger Stokes shift, broader absorption spectra, and greatly improved photostability. We successfully demonstrated the application of the nanorods, including their aforementioned beneficial characteristics, as a good fluorescence probe for bio-imaging.}
}