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 …

Fluorescent nanoparticles for super-resolution imaging

W Li, GS Kaminski Schierle, B Lei, Y Liu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Super-resolution imaging techniques that overcome the diffraction limit of light have gained
wide popularity for visualizing cellular structures with nanometric resolution. Following the …

Controlling upconversion in emerging multilayer core–shell nanostructures: from fundamentals to frontier applications

S Liu, L Yan, J Huang, Q Zhang, B Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lanthanide-based upconversion nanomaterials have recently attracted considerable
attention in both fundamental research and various frontier applications owing to 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 …

[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 …

Lanthanide doped luminescence nanothermometers in the biological windows: strategies and applications

A Nexha, JJ Carvajal, MC Pujol, F Díaz, M Aguiló - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of lanthanide-doped non-contact luminescent nanothermometers with
accuracy, efficiency and fast diagnostic tools attributed to their versatility, stability and narrow …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in the development of upconversion nanomaterials in bioimaging and disease treatment

G Liang, H Wang, H Shi, H Wang, M Zhu, A Jing… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Multifunctional lanthanide-based upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), which feature
efficiently convert low-energy photons into high-energy photons, have attracted …

Light: a magical tool for controlled drug delivery

Y Tao, HF Chan, B Shi, M Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Light is a particularly appealing tool for on‐demand drug delivery due to its noninvasive
nature, ease of application, and exquisite temporal and spatial control. Great progress is …

Nanochemistry and nanomedicine for nanoparticle-based diagnostics and therapy

G Chen, I Roy, C Yang, PN Prasad - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles are generally defined as any particulate material for which at least one
dimension lies in the range of 1− 100 nm. 1− 3 They can exist in various shapes, such as …

Controlling upconversion nanocrystals for emerging applications

B Zhou, B Shi, D Jin, X Liu - Nature nanotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals enable anti-Stokes emission with pump
intensities several orders of magnitude lower than required by conventional nonlinear …