Lanthanide doped luminescence nanothermometers in the biological windows: strategies and applications

A Nexha, JJ Carvajal, MC Pujol, F Díaz, M Aguiló - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of lanthanide-doped non-contact luminescent nanothermometers with
accuracy, efficiency and fast diagnostic tools attributed to their versatility, stability and narrow …

Coordination chemistry of the host matrices with dopant luminescent Ln3+ ion and their impact on luminescent properties

AA Ansari, MR Muthumareeswaran, R Lv - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a unique class of optical materials and are extensively
used as building blocks for optoelectronic device architectures due to their outstanding …

Quenching of the upconversion luminescence of NaYF 4: Yb 3+, Er 3+ and NaYF 4: Yb 3+, Tm 3+ nanophosphors by water: the role of the sensitizer Yb 3+ in non …

R Arppe, I Hyppänen, N Perälä, R Peltomaa, M Kaiser… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We have studied the mechanisms of water-based quenching of the upconversion
photoluminescence of upconverting nanophosphors (UCNPs) via luminescence decay …

Upconverting nanoparticles working as primary thermometers in different media

S Balabhadra, ML Debasu, CDS Brites… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, noninvasive luminescent thermometry has become popular due to the
limitations of traditional contact thermometers to operate at scales below 100 μm, as …

Reliability of rare-earth-doped infrared luminescent nanothermometers

L Labrador-Paez, M Pedroni, A Speghini, J García-Solé… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of infrared-emitting rare-earth-doped luminescent nanoparticles as
nanothermometers has attracted great attention during the last few years. The scientific …

Imaging agents based on lanthanide doped nanoparticles

L Prodi, E Rampazzo, F Rastrelli, A Speghini… - Chemical society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanotechnology has recently allowed us to design and prepare nanoplatforms with the
potential to face currently unresolved problems. Among these platforms, nanoparticles in …

1.3 μm emitting SrF2:Nd3+ nanoparticles for high contrast in vivo imaging in the second biological window

I Villa, A Vedda, IX Cantarelli, M Pedroni, F Piccinelli… - Nano Research, 2015 - Springer
Novel approaches for high contrast, deep tissue, in vivo fluorescence biomedical imaging
are based on infrared-emitting nanoparticles working in the so-called second biological …

Subtissue Plasmonic Heating Monitored with CaF2:Nd3+,Y3+ Nanothermometers in the Second Biological Window

M Quintanilla, Y Zhang, LM Liz-Marzan - Chemistry of Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Measuring temperature in biological environments is an ambitious goal toward supporting
medical treatment and diagnosis. Minimally invasive techniques based on optical probes …

Small alkaline-earth-based core/shell nanoparticles for efficient upconversion

S Fischer, RD Mehlenbacher, A Lay, C Siefe… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The optical efficiency of lanthanide-based upconversion is intricately related to the
crystalline host lattice. Different crystal fields interacting with the electron clouds of the …

Luminescence properties of Er 3+-doped transparent NaYb 2 F 7 glass-ceramics for optical thermometry and spectral conversion

F Hu, J Cao, X Wei, X Li, J Cai, H Guo… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Novel Er3+-doped transparent NaYb2F7 glass-ceramics (GCs) were successfully fabricated
for the first time by a conventional melt-quenching technique with subsequent heat …