Mesoporous Europo-Gadolinosilicate Nanoparticles as Bimodal Medical Imaging Agents and a Potential Theranostic Platform

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The authors thank Chris Sheedy (CSIRO Process Science and Engineering) for performing the ICP-OES analyses, Dr. Sergey Rubanov and staff of the Electron Microscopy Unit at the Bio21 Institute of The University of Melbourne for assisting with the TEM characterization. Portions of this research were undertaken on the SAXS/WAXS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria, Australia. N.M.K.T. was the recipient of a CSIRO PhD studentship, D.F.K. was the recipient of a CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive postdoctoral award, R.A.C acknowledges an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT0990583), and C.J.D. was the recipient of an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship.