Super-resolution imaging techniques that overcome the diffraction limit of light have gained
wide popularity for visualizing cellular structures with nanometric resolution. Following the …

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 …

Brightness is a fundamental property of fluorescent nanomaterials reflecting their capacity to
absorb and emit light. In sensing materials, brightness is crucial for high-sensitivity (bio) …

Owing to their tunable band gap, high absorption coefficient, narrow emission linewidths
and unrestricted composition, InP-based colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have become …

A photon avalanche (PA) effect that occurs in lanthanide-doped solids gives rise to a giant
nonlinear response in the luminescence intensity to the excitation light intensity. As a result …

The detection of cancer biomarkers in histological samples and blood is of paramount
importance for clinical diagnosis. Current methods are limited in terms of sensitivity …

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool to visualize biomolecules and
cellular structures at the nanometer scale. Employing these techniques in living cells has …

The complexity of nanoscale interactions between biomaterials and cells has limited the
realization of the ultimate vision of nanotechnology in diagnostics and therapeutics. As such …

Stimulated emission depletion (STED) nanoscopy is a promising fluorescence microscopy to
detect unresolvable structures at the nanoscale level and then achieve a superior imaging …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) possess the remarkable ability to
convert multiple near-infrared (NIR) photons into higher energy ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) …