By courtesy of:
Maksym V. Yezhelyev, Ahmad Al-Hajj, Caroline Morris, Adam I. Marcus, Tonqrui Liu, Melinda Lewis, Cynthia Cohen, Pasha Zrazhevskiy, Jonathan W. Simons, Andre Rogatko, Shuming Nie, Xiaohu Gao,* and Ruth M. O’Regan*
Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 3146
and
Quantum-dot-tagged microbeads for multiplexed optical coding of biomolecules
Mingyong Han, Xiaohu Gao, Jack Z. Su, and Shuming Nie*
Nature Biotechnology 2001, 19, 631-635
and a recent one by using Lanthanide combining with MS, where big polymer particles (~2 um) were prepared by 2-stage dispersion polymerization:
Lanthanide-Containing Polymer Microspheres by Multiple-Stage Dispersion Polymerization for Highly Multiplexed Bioassays
Ahmed I. Abdelrahman, Sheng Dai, Stuart C. Thickett, Olga Ornatsky, Dmitry Bandura, Vladimir Baranov, and Mitchell A. Winnik*
JACS 2009, 131, 15276–15283