Semiconducting photosensitizer-incorporated copolymers as near-infrared afterglow nanoagents for tumor imaging

• Main Authors: Cui, Dong, Xie, Chen, Li, Jingchao, Lyu, Yan, Pu, Kanyi
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering; Afterglow Imaging; Near‐infrared Fluorescence
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137158
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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