Individual, light-emitting nanoparticles offer many opportunities for early disease detection. Now, advances towards greatly enhanced brightness are being made using core–multi-shell architectures.
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Ballato, J. A nano shell game. Nature Photon 12, 501–502 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0244-y
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