Recent development in sensitizers for lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence

X Cheng, J Zhou, J Yue, Y Wei, C Gao, X Xie… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

The coming of age of neodymium: redefining its role in rare earth doped nanoparticles

M Matulionyte, A Skripka, A Ramos-Guerra… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Among luminescent nanostructures actively investigated in the last couple of decades, rare
earth (RE3+) doped nanoparticles (RENPs) are some of the most reported family of …

Enhancement of single upconversion nanoparticle imaging by topologically segregated core-shell structure with inward energy migration

Y Zhang, R Wen, J Hu, D Guan, X Qiu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Manipulating topological arrangement is a powerful tool for tuning energy migration in
natural photosynthetic proteins and artificial polymers. Here, we report an inorganic optical …

Six-photon upconverted excitation energy lock-in for ultraviolet-C enhancement

Q Su, HL Wei, Y Liu, C Chen, M Guan, S Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Photon upconversion of near-infrared (NIR) irradiation into ultraviolet-C (UVC) emission
offers many exciting opportunities for drug release in deep tissues, photodynamic therapy …

Tuning phonon energies in lanthanide‐doped potassium lead halide nanocrystals for enhanced nonlinearity and upconversion

Z Zhang, A Skripka, JC Dahl, C Dun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optical applications of lanthanide‐doped nanoparticles require materials with low phonon
energies to minimize nonradiative relaxation and promote nonlinear processes like …

Preselectable optical fingerprints of heterogeneous upconversion nanoparticles

J Liao, J Zhou, Y Song, B Liu, Y Chen, F Wang… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The control in optical uniformity of single nanoparticles and tuning their diversity in multiple
dimensions, dot to dot, holds the key to unlocking nanoscale applications. Here we report …

Heterochromatic Nonlinear Optical Responses in Upconversion Nanoparticles for Super‐Resolution Nanoscopy

C Chen, B Liu, Y Liu, J Liao, X Shan… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Point spread function (PSF) engineering by an emitter's response can code higher‐spatial‐
frequency information of an image for microscopy to achieve super‐resolution. However …

Dynamic manipulation of multimodal emission in Er3+-activated non-core–shell structure for optical thermometry and information security

X Liu, ZX Lin, YB Shi, XY Wang, MY Ding, XF Yang - Rare Metals, 2024 - Springer
Regulating luminescent dynamics of lanthanide-based luminescent materials via external
stimuli is of great significance in the fields of optical thermometry and high-level anti …

Lanthanide-based nanosensors: refining nanoparticle responsiveness for single particle imaging of stimuli

JR Casar, CA McLellan, C Siefe, JA Dionne - ACS photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide nanoparticles (LNPs) are promising sensors of chemical, mechanical, and
temperature changes; they combine the narrow-spectral emission and long-lived excited …

Engineering bright and mechanosensitive alkaline-earth rare-earth upconverting nanoparticles

CA McLellan, C Siefe, JR Casar, CS Peng… - The journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) are an emerging platform for mechanical force
sensing at the nanometer scale. An outstanding challenge in realizing nanometer-scale …