Ph.D.
Fudan University - 2009

B.S.
Beijing Normal University - 2004

J.B. Liu, M.X. Yu, C. Zhou, S. Yang, X. Ning, J. Zheng, Passive Tumor Targeting of Renal Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles: Long Tumor Retention and Fast Normal Tissue Clearance, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 4978-4981 (2013). 2013 - Publication

M.X. Yu, C. Zhou, J. Liu, J. D. Hankins, J. Zheng, Luminscent Gold Nanoparticles with pH De-pendent Membrane Adsorption, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 11014-11017 (2011). 2011 - Publication

C.Y. Li, M.X. Yu, Y. Sun, Y.Q. Wu, C.H. Huang, F.Y. Li, A Nonemissive Iridium(III) Complex That Specifically Lights-Up the Nuclei of Living Cells, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 11231-11239 (2011). 2011 - Publication

Y. Sun, M.X. Yu, S. Liang, Y.J. Zhang, C. G. Li, T.T. Mou, W.J. Yang, X.Z. Zhang, B.A. Li, C.H. Huang, F.Y. Li, Fluorine-18 labeled rare-earth nanoparticles for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of sentinel lymph node, Biomaterials 32, 2999-3007 (2011). 2011 - Publication

J. Zhou, M.X. Yu, Y. Sun, X.Z. Zhang, X.J. Zhu, Z.H. Wu, D.M. Wu, F.Y. Li*. Fluorine-18-labeled Gd3+/Yb3+/Er3+ co-doped NaYF4 nanophosphors for multimodality PET/MR/UCL imaging, Biomaterials 32, 1148-1156 (2011). 2011 - Publication

Q. Zhao, M.X. Yu, L.X. Shi, S.J. Liu, C.Y. Li, M. Shi, Z.G. Zhou, C.H. Huang, F.Y. Li, Cationic Iridium(III) Complexes with Tunable Emission Color as Phosphorescent Dyes for Live Cell Imaging, Organometallics 29 1085-1091 (2010). 2010 - Publication

M.X. Yu, F.Y. Li, Z.G. Chen, H. Hu, C. Zhan, H. Yang, C.H. Huang, “Laser Scanning Up-conversion Luminescence Microscopy for Imaging Cells Labeled with Rare-earth Nanophospors”, Anal. Chem., 81, 930-935 (2009). 2009 - Publication

M.X. Yu, M. Shi, Z.G. Chen, F.Y. Li, X.X. Li, Y.H. Gao, J. Xu, H. Yang, Z.G. Zhou, T. Yi, C.H. Huang, “Highly Sensitive and Fast Responsive Fluorescence Turn-on Chemodosimeter for Cu2+ and its Application in Live Cell Imaging”, Chem. Eur. J., 14, 6892-6900 (2008). 2008 - Publication

Honors and Awards

Best Poster in Biomaterials and Tissue, UT Metroplex Day, 2010.