Monodisperse silica nanoparticles encapsulating upconversion fluorescent and superparamagnetic nanocrystals.

A new type of multifunctional silica-coated nanocomposites, detectable by their upconversion fluorescence and addressable by a magnetic field, was synthesized.

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