The misuse of chemicals in agricultural systems and food production leads to an increase in
contaminants in food, which ultimately has adverse effects on human health. This situation …

LFIA is one of the most successful analytical methods for various target molecules detection.
As a recent example, LFIA tests have played an important role in mitigating the effects of the …

Due to the unique properties of lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles (UCNP) under
near-infrared (NIR) light, the last decade has shown a sharp progress in their biomedicine …

The rapid development of biomedicine in recent decades has benefited from optical imaging
with high temporal and spatial resolution. In particular, lanthanide nanoparticles (LnNPs) are …

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women and is the second leading cause
of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Early diagnosis and effective therapeutic interventions …

Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are known to possess unique characteristics, which
allow them to overcome a number of issues that plague traditional fluorescence probes …

This work introduces new methods to characterize dispersions of small-diameter or low-
mass-fraction nanoparticles (NPs) by single-particle inductively coupled plasma-mass …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) display highly beneficial
photophysical features for background-free bioimaging and bioanalysis; however, they are …

The unique photophysical properties of lanthanides, such as europium, terbium, and
ytterbium, make them versatile molecular probes of biological systems. In particular, their …

Lanthanide-based nanocrystals possess three unique physical properties that make them
attractive for facilitating photoreactions, namely photon upconversion luminescence, Lewis …