Abstract
We report a facile and large-scale synthesis of size-tunable and nontoxic mesoporous silica-coated Gd2O3:Eu3+ (Gd@mSi) core-shell nanostructures using a TPAOH assisted modified UHP technique. The role of TPAOH in controlling the particle size was evaluated. The potentiality of these Gd@mSi core-shell nanoparticles before and after folic acid conjugation was established by in vitro fluorescence microscopy of the U2OS cell lines for cancer imaging and therapy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 747-750 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Chemical Communications |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - 2018 |