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A general approach to silicate nanoshells: gadolinium silicate and gadolinium silicate:europium nanoshells for dual-modality optical and MR imaging.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2009-06-09)
Chih-Chia Huang, Wileen Huang, Chia-Hao Su, Chieh-Ning Feng, Wen-Shuo Kuo, Chen-Sheng Yeh
ABSTRACT

A general approach involving a solvothermal method was developed to synthesize a series of silicate nanoshells (<100 nm) where both Gd silicate and Gd silicate:Eu nanoshells were further demonstrated to exhibit dual-modality MRI and optical imaging functions.

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