The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

Photoactivatable (alternatively, photoremovable, photoreleasable, or photocleavable)
protecting groups (PPGs), also known as caged or photocaged compounds, are used to …

Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are one of the more popular nanomaterials
currently utilized within biological applications. However, what is not widely appreciated is …

Lanthanide pairs, which can upconvert low energy photons into higher energy photons, are
promising for efficient upconversion emission. A typical system with Yb3+ as a sensitizer can …

The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the use of super-resolution fluorescence
microscopy methods in biology and other fields. Single-molecule localization microscopy …

Remote activation of photoactivable therapeutic compounds by light provides a high spatial
and temporal control for activating the therapeutic agent. However, photoactivable …

A great challenge in noninvasive biomedical imaging is the acquisition of images inside a
biological system at the cellular level. Common modalities used today such as magnetic …

A family of upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) with a tunable UV enhancement is
developed via a facile approach. The design leads to a maximum 9-fold enhancement in …

While colloidal nanocrystals hold tremendous potential for both enhancing fundamental
understanding of materials scaling and enabling advanced technologies, progress in both …

The number of reports per year on single-molecule imaging experiments has grown roughly
exponentially since the first successful efforts to optically detect a single molecule were …