Exploring heterostructured upconversion nanoparticles: from rational engineering to diverse applications

Y Zhang, X Zhu, Y Zhang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) represent a class of optical nanomaterials that can
convert low-energy excitation photons to high-energy fluorescence emissions. On the basis …

Up-conversion hybrid nanomaterials for light-and heat-driven applications

A Gupta, S Ghosh, MK Thakur, J Zhou… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Composites or hybrid materials offer diverse properties not achievable in pure materials.
Here we critically review the interesting and controllable fluorescence and photothermal …

Recent advances in 2D rare earth materials

P Chen, W Han, M Zhao, J Su, Z Li, D Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D rare earth (RE) materials have received considerable attention in recent years
due to the fascinating luminescence, magnetism, and electric properties originated from RE …

High-Quantum-Yield Upconverting Er3+/Yb3+-Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Dual Coatings for Real-Time Temperature Sensing and Photothermal Conversion

FJ Caixeta, ARN Bastos, AMP Botas… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Flexible coatings with dual capabilities for remote real-time temperature sensing and
photothermal conversion have a huge potential in the field of advanced thermal actuated …

Radiolabeled human protein-functionalized upconversion nanoparticles for multimodal cancer imaging

N Akhtar, PW Wu, CL Chen, WY Chang… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multimodal imaging removes the intrinsic limitations of individual modalities, while the
multipurpose nanoagents reduce the toxicity associated with the use of multiple contrast …

Facile in-situ synthesis of solid mediator based CdS-rGO-WO3 Z-scheme photocatalytic system for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen generation

A Sarkar, MK Mandal, S Das, S Mandal, P Chakraborty… - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) solid state mediator based Z scheme photocatalyst CdS-
rGO-WO 3 heterojunction comprising of nano-rods of CdS and nanoplates of WO 3 was …

Microplasma-enabled graphene quantum dot-wrapped gold nanoparticles with synergistic enhancement for broad band photodetection

MK Thakur, CY Fang, YT Yang, TA Effendi… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanostructure/semiconductor nanohybrids offer many opportunities for emerging
electronic and optoelectronic device applications because of their unique geometries in the …

Highly sensitive broadband binary photoresponse in gateless epitaxial graphene on 4H–SiC

S Rathore, DK Patel, MK Thakur, G Haider, M Kalbac… - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to weak light-matter interaction, standard chemical vapor deposition (CVD)/exfoliated
single-layer graphene-based photodetectors show low photoresponsivity (on the order of …

Metallo-graphene enhanced upconversion luminescence for broadband photodetection under polychromatic illumination

A Gupta, MK Thakur, TA Effendi, RS Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
We report electrostatically conjugated core-silica (SiO 2) shell upconversion nanoparticle
(UCNPs@ SiO 2), and gold nanorod (AuNR) nanocomposite (NC) combined with graphene …

PDT-active upconversion nanoheaters for targeted imaging guided combinatorial cancer phototherapies with low-power single NIR excitation

N Akhtar, CL Chen, S Chattopadhyay - Biomaterials Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
A versatile nanoformulation is designed by anchoring human transferrin protein (Tf) on
fluoromagnetic upconverting nanoheaters, NaGdF 4: Yb, Er (UCNP), loaded with Rose …