CRISPR/Cas-powered nanobiosensors for diagnostics

QA Phan, LB Truong, D Medina-Cruz, C Dincer… - Biosensors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
CRISPR diagnostics (CRISPR-Dx) offer a wide range of enhancements compared to
traditional nanobiosensors by taking advantage of the excellent trans-cleavage activity of the …

Lanthanide upconversion luminescence at the nanoscale: fundamentals and optical properties

A Nadort, J Zhao, EM Goldys - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Upconversion photoluminescence is a nonlinear effect where multiple lower energy
excitation photons produce higher energy emission photons. This fundamentally interesting …

Emerging frontiers of upconversion nanoparticles

B Chen, F Wang - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles capable of converting near-infrared
excitation into UV and visible emissions have attracted considerable research interests in …

Artificial opal photonic crystals and inverse opal structures–fundamentals and applications from optics to energy storage

E Armstrong, C O'Dwyer - Journal of materials chemistry C, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Photonic crystals (PhCs) influence the propagation of light by their periodic variation in
dielectric contrast or refractive index. This review outlines the attractive optical qualities …

Manipulating luminescence of light emitters by photonic crystals

S Wu, H Xia, J Xu, X Sun, X Liu - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The modulation of luminescence is essential because unwanted spontaneous‐emission
modes have a negative effect on the performance of luminescence‐based photonic devices …

Plasmon enhancement of luminescence upconversion

W Park, D Lu, S Ahn - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Frequency conversion has always been an important topic in optics. Nonlinear optics has
traditionally focused on frequency conversion based on nonlinear susceptibility but with the …

Surface plasmon–photon coupling in lanthanide-doped nanoparticles

X Qin, AN Carneiro Neto, RL Longo, Y Wu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles have great potential for energy conversion applications, as
their optical properties can be precisely controlled by varying the doping composition …

Recent advances in radiation therapy and photodynamic therapy

LM Chong, DJH Tng, LLY Tan, MLK Chua… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 100 years, external beam energy for the treatment of cancer has continually
evolved. Two main modes have been developed. The first is radiotherapy which involves …

Upconversion manipulation by local electromagnetic field

W Xu, X Chen, H Song - Nano Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Rare earth doped upconversion nanocrystals (RE-UCNCs) have attracted extensive
interests owing to their unique physical properties and great potential applications in bio …

Thermomchromic reaction-induced reversible upconversion emission modulation for switching devices and tunable upconversion emission based on defect …

J Ruan, Z Yang, A Huang, H Zhang… - ACS applied materials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Reversible luminescence modulation of upconversion phosphors has the potential
applications as photoswitches and optical memory and data storage devices. Previously, the …