Rechargeable Afterglow Nanotorches for In Vivo Tracing of Cell‐Based Microrobots

• DOI: 10.1002/anie.202400658
• Publication Date: 2024-03-06T14:39:01Z
• Authors: Gongcheng Ma; Musa Dirak; Zhongke Liu; Daoyong Jiang; Yue Wang; Chunbai Xiang; Yuding Zhang; Yuan Luo; Ping Gong; Lintao Cai; Safacan Kolemen; Pengfei Zhang
• Keywords: 02 engineering and technology; 0210 nano-technology

AbstractAs one of the self‐luminescence imaging approaches that require pre‐illumination instead of real‐time light excitation, afterglow luminescence imaging has attracted increasing enthusiasm to circumvent tissue autofluorescence. In this work, we developed organic afterglow luminescent nanoprobe (nanotorch), which could emit persistent luminescence more than 10 days upon single light excitation. More importantly, the nanotorch could be remote charged by 660 nm light in a non‐invasive manner, which showed great potential for real‐time tracing the location of macrophage cell‐based microrobots.