Rare-earth doping in nanostructured inorganic materials

B Zheng, J Fan, B Chen, X Qin, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Impurity doping is a promising method to impart new properties to various materials. Due to
their unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, rare-earth ions have been …

Spotlight on luminescence thermometry: basics, challenges, and cutting‐edge applications

CDS Brites, R Marin, M Suta… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence (nano) thermometry is a remote sensing technique that relies on the
temperature dependency of the luminescence features (eg, bandshape, peak energy or …

Thermally Enhanced and Long Lifetime Red TADF Carbon Dots via Multi‐Confinement and Phosphorescence Assisted Energy Transfer

Q Lou, N Chen, J Zhu, K Liu, C Li, Y Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials, which can harvest both singlet
and triplet excitons for high‐efficiency emission, have attracted widespread concern for their …

Recent development in sensitizers for lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence

X Cheng, J Zhou, J Yue, Y Wei, C Gao, X Xie… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

Advances and challenges for fluorescence nanothermometry

J Zhou, B Del Rosal, D Jaque, S Uchiyama, D Jin - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Fluorescent nanothermometers can probe changes in local temperature in living cells and in
vivo and reveal fundamental insights into biological properties. This field has attracted …

Lanthanide‐based thermometers: at the cutting‐edge of luminescence thermometry

CDS Brites, S Balabhadra… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Present technological demands in disparate areas, such as microfluidics and nanofluidics,
microelectronics and nanoelectronics, photonics and biomedicine, among others, have …

High-security anti-counterfeiting through upconversion luminescence

H Suo, Q Zhu, X Zhang, B Chen, J Chen, F Wang - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Upconversion luminescence is characterized by the conversion of near-infrared excitation
into ultraviolet and visible emissions through a special class of doped optical materials …

[HTML][HTML] Manipulation of time-dependent multicolour evolution of X-ray excited afterglow in lanthanide-doped fluoride nanoparticles

L Lei, Y Wang, W Xu, R Ye, Y Hua, D Deng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
External manipulation of emission colour is of significance for scientific research and
applications, however, the general stimulus-responsive colour modulation method requires …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in highly doped upconversion nanoparticles

S Wen, J Zhou, K Zheng, A Bednarkiewicz, X Liu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are capable of converting near-
infra-red excitation into visible and ultraviolet emission. Their unique optical properties have …

Activating ultrahigh thermoresponsive upconversion in an erbium sublattice for nanothermometry and information security

L Yan, J Huang, Z An, Q Zhang, B Zhou - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thermal activation of upconversion luminescence in nanocrystals opens up new
opportunities in biotechnology and nanophotonics. However, it remains a daunting …