Ion exchange membranes (IEMs) are undergoing prosperous development in recent years.
More than 30,000 papers which are indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) …

Luminescence-based techniques continue to attract considerable attention due not only to
their current range of applications but also to their wide potential in the fields of optical …

Lanthanide-doped glasses and crystals are attractive for laser applications because the
metastable energy levels of the trivalent lanthanide ions facilitate the establishment of …

Light in the near‐infrared (NIR) spectral region is increasingly utilized in bioapplications,
providing deeper penetration in biological tissues owing to the lower absorption and …

Magnetic nanoparticles have received tremendous attention in diverse fields because of
their unique nanoscale physicochemical properties and the potential for a wide range of …

Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a particular class of optical materials and are regularly
utilized as a structure block for architectures of optoelectronic frameworks because of their …

Theranostics is a concept of integrating imaging and therapy into a single platform for use in
the next generation of personalized medicine to meet the challenges in modern health …

In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

Cancer accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) worldwide in 2008.(1)
Almost 13 million cancer cases are newly diagnosed every year, and deaths are projected to …

Luminescent materials, also called phosphors, are defined as solids that can absorb and
convert certain types of energy into radiation of light.(1) Among all kinds of phosphors, rare …