Rare-earth doping in nanostructured inorganic materials

B Zheng, J Fan, B Chen, X Qin, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
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 …

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 …

Near-infrared photon upconversion and solar synthesis using lead-free nanocrystals

W Liang, C Nie, J Du, Y Han, G Zhao, F Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Near-infrared-to-visible photon upconversion holds great promise for a diverse range of
applications. Current photosensitizers for triplet-fusion upconversion across this spectral …

Luminescence lifetime imaging based on lanthanide nanoparticles

X Zhu, X Wang, H Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence lifetime imaging has exhibited significant advantages over traditional optical
imaging in terms of precise quantification detection because of the intrinsic stability of …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: Exploring a treasure trove of nir-mediated emerging applications

K Malhotra, D Hrovat, B Kumar, G Qu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) possess the remarkable ability to
convert multiple near-infrared (NIR) photons into higher energy ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) …

Surface modified lanthanide upconversion nanoparticles for drug delivery, cellular uptake mechanism, and current challenges in NIR-driven therapies

AA Ansari, AK Parchur, G Chen - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a particular class of optical materials and are regularly
utilized as a structure block for architectures of optoelectronic frameworks because of their …

Local structure engineering in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals for tunable upconversion emissions

H Dong, LD Sun, CH Yan - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Upconversion emissions from lanthanide-doped nanocrystals have sparked extensive
research interests in nanophotonics, biomedicine, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, etc …

Anomalous upconversion amplification induced by surface reconstruction in lanthanide sublattices

H Xu, S Han, R Deng, Q Su, Y Wei, Y Tang, X Qin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Upconversion nanocrystals have been extensively investigated for optical imaging and
biomedical applications,. However, their photoluminescence is strongly attenuated by …

Nanoparticle‐Based Photothermal Therapy for Breast Cancer Noninvasive Treatment

Y Xiong, Y Rao, J Hu, Z Luo, C Chen - Advanced materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid advancements in materials science and nanotechnology, intertwined with oncology,
have positioned photothermal therapy (PTT) as a promising noninvasive treatment strategy …

Ultralarge anti-Stokes lasing through tandem upconversion

T Sun, B Chen, Y Guo, Q Zhu, J Zhao, Y Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Coherent ultraviolet light is important for applications in environmental and life sciences.
However, direct ultraviolet lasing is constrained by the fabrication challenge and operation …