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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Sheffield : B - Materials Science and Engineering

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Output 78 of 128 in the submission

Article title

Polypyrrole Nanoparticles: A Potential Optical Coherence Tomography Contrast Agent for Cancer Imaging

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1002/adma.201103190

Title of journal

Advanced Materials

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

5792

ISSN of journal

09359648

Year of publication

2011

URL

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22102372

Number of additional authors

Additional information

We reported the first use of an organic conducting polymer latex as a contrast agent for optical coherence tomography (OCT). Compared to organic dyes and gold nanoparticles the agent displays much more intense absorption at the key OCT wavelength of 1300 nm. A patent application was filed (P130869GB) and follow-on funding was received from the Sheffield EPSRC KTA grant (£40K) and a commercial company (Vivacta Ltd) to develop the agent further. Groups at Xiamen, Soochow and Peking universities (China) have verified the excellent optical properties of this material by applying it as a photothermal cancer therapy agent.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract