Metal complexes possess outstanding photophysical properties, such as large Stokes shifts, good photostability, long luminescent lifetimes, two-photon luminescent properties and so on. During the past years, metal complexes have attracted intensive research interest in biological imaging for their excellent properties. Moreover, they also have been applied for real-time tracking the cellular dynamics during a series of biological events. In this review, the essential requirements of the metal complexes for ...
Contents
1 Introduction
2 The essential requirements of real-time tracking probes
3 The imaging modes of transition metal complexes
4 Cellular dynamics tracking
4.1 Tracking the dynamics of organelles
4.2 Tracking the dynamics of microenvironment fa