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 …

Colloidal silica particles have received a widespread interest because of their potential
applications in adsorption, ceramics, catalysis, drug delivery and more. Among many …

Photo–triggered therapeutic modalities for cancer have attracted enormous attention in
recent years due to the easily focused and tuned properties of irradiation light that enable …

Silicon is one of the most promising anode materials for lithium‐ion batteries because of the
highest known theoretical capacity and abundance in the earth'crust. Unfortunately …

Targeted drug delivery is an emerging technological strategy that enables nanoparticle
systems to be responsive for tumor therapy. Magnetic mesoporous silica nanoparticles …

With the evolution of nanoscience and nanotechnology, studies have been focused on
manipulating nanoparticle properties through the control of their size, composition, and …

Plasmonic nanoparticles can strongly interact with adjacent fluorophores, resulting in
plasmon-enhanced fluorescence or fluorescence quenching. This dipolar coupling is …

Silicon as an electrode suffers from short cycling life, as well as unsatisfactory rate-capability
caused by the large volume expansion (~ 400%) and the consequent structural degradation …

Raman spectroscopy is an emerging technique in bioanalysis and imaging of biomaterials
owing to its unique capability of generating spectroscopic fingerprints. Imaging cells and …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals (UCNCs) have recently become an attractive
nonlinear fluorescence material for use in bioimaging because of their tunable spectral …