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 …

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

Lanthanide-based upconversion nanomaterials have recently attracted considerable
attention in both fundamental research and various frontier applications owing to their …

The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are tailor-made chemical receptors that recognize
and bind target molecules with a high affinity and selectivity. MIPs came into the spotlight in …

Radiotherapy, a mainstay of first‐line cancer treatment, suffers from its high‐dose radiation‐
induced systemic toxicity and radioresistance caused by the immunosuppressive tumor …

Luminescence nanothermometry enables accurate, remote, and all-optically-based thermal
sensing. Notwithstanding its fast development, there are serious obstacles hindering …

Upconversion luminescence is characterized by the conversion of near-infrared excitation
into ultraviolet and visible emissions through a special class of doped optical materials …

In view of certain unique internalization features of the tumor microenvironment
(TME)(mainly including hypoxia, acidity and higher concentrations of H 2 O 2 and GSH) …