Circularly polarized lanthanide luminescence for advanced security inks

LE MacKenzie, R Pal - Nature reviews chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Authenticating products and documents with security inks is vital to global commerce,
security and health. Lanthanide complexes are widely used in luminescent security inks …

Multifunctional engineered mesoporous silica/inorganic material hybrid nanoparticles: Theranostic perspectives

NB Fernandes, Y Nayak, S Garg, UY Nayak - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The field of advanced nanotechnology is brimming with a plethora of nanotheranostics
whose combinatorial synergistic applicability in treating malignant tumors is tremendous. But …

DNA‐coated upconversion nanoparticles for sensitive nucleic acid FRET biosensing

L Francés‐Soriano, N Estebanez… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the significant advancements of developing upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs)
for high performance biosensing and bioimaging, the development of DNA‐functionalized …

Drug delivery systems for phthalocyanines for photodynamic therapy

J Rak, P Pouckova, J Benes, D Vetvicka - Anticancer research, 2019 - ar.iiarjournals.org
The focus of this review is to describe the state-of-art in the development of innovative drug
delivery systems for phthalocyanines as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy (PDT) …

Deep-tissue optical imaging of near cellular-sized features

X Dang, NM Bardhan, J Qi, L Gu, NA Eze, CW Lin… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Detection of biological features at the cellular level with sufficient sensitivity in complex
tissue remains a major challenge. To appreciate this challenge, this would require finding …

Critical Aspects on the Chemical Stability of NaYF4-Based Upconverting Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

MF Torresan, A Wolosiuk - ACS applied bio materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes essential information about the chemical stability of NaYF4-based
upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) in aqueous solutions, a crucial aspect for achieving …

pH-responsive polyelectrolyte complexation on upconversion nanoparticles: a multifunctional nanocarrier for protection, delivery, and 3D-imaging of therapeutic …

R De, YH Song, MK Mahata, KT Lee - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The delicate tertiary structure of proteins, their susceptibility to heat-and enzyme-induced
irreversible denaturation, and their tendency to get accumulated at the cell membrane …

Nanotransducers for wireless neuromodulation

X Li, H Xiong, N Rommelfanger, X Xu, J Youn… - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
Understanding the signal transmission and processing within the central nervous system is
a grand challenge in neuroscience. The past decade has witnessed significant advances in …

Ultrasensitive determination of surface proteins on tumor-derived small extracellular vesicles for breast cancer identification based on lanthanide-activated signal …

S Cheng, C Zhang, X Hu, Y Zhu, H Shi, W Tan, X Luo… - Talanta, 2024 - Elsevier
Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) carrying multiple tumor-associated proteins inherited
from parental cells play crucial roles in noninvasive breast cancer (BC) diagnosis. However …

Characterization of upconversion nanoparticles by single-particle ICP-MS employing a quadrupole mass filter with increased bandpass

S Meyer, R Gonzalez de Vega, X Xu, Z Du… - Analytical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This work introduces new methods to characterize dispersions of small-diameter or low-
mass-fraction nanoparticles (NPs) by single-particle inductively coupled plasma-mass …