Organic/inorganic nanohybrids have attracted widespread interests due to their favorable
properties and promising applications in biomedical areas. Great efforts have been made to …

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 …

Lanthanides refer to the 15 elements located at the sixth period and IIIB group in the periodic
table, ranging from lanthanum to lutetium, with the electronic configuration of [Xe] 4f n–1 5d …

Heparin is a negatively charged polysaccharide with various chain lengths and a hydrophilic
backbone. Due to its fascinating chemical and physical properties, nontoxicity …

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 …

The current status of the use of nanoparticles for photothermal treatments is reviewed in
detail. The different families of heating nanoparticles are described paying special attention …

Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanoparticles possess superior physicochemical features such
as long-lived luminescence, large antenna-generated Stokes or anti-Stokes shifts, narrow …

Tailoring personalized cancer nanomedicines demands detailed understanding of the tumor
microenvironment. In recent years, smart upconversion nanoparticles with the ability to …

Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are one kind of luminescence nanomaterials that
convert low energy photons to high energy emissions. These nanomaterials have recently …

Lanthanide (Ln) doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have attracted enormous
attention in the recent years due to their unique upconversion luminescent properties that …