“…Among these emerging thermometers, which are based on lanthanide nanoparticles (Vetrone et a., 2010;Peng et al, 2010;Brites et al, 2010;Fisher et al, 2011), dye-coated nanoparticles (Huang et al, 2010), quantum dots (Yang et al, 2010), semiconducting polymer dots (Ye et al, 2011), temperature-responsive polymers (Chen & Chen, 2011;Gota et al, 2009) and a fluorescent nanogel thermometer (FNT) by combining a thermo-responsive polymer with a water-sensitive fluorophore (Okabe et al, 2012). To the point, the last is the only thermometer that allows the mapping of intracellular temperatures due to its ability to diffuse throughout living cells and its sensitivity to temperature.…”