Spotlight on luminescence thermometry: basics, challenges, and cutting‐edge applications

CDS Brites, R Marin, M Suta… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence (nano) thermometry is a remote sensing technique that relies on the
temperature dependency of the luminescence features (eg, bandshape, peak energy or …

Lanthanide‐based thermometers: at the cutting‐edge of luminescence thermometry

CDS Brites, S Balabhadra… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Present technological demands in disparate areas, such as microfluidics and nanofluidics,
microelectronics and nanoelectronics, photonics and biomedicine, among others, have …

Development of organic semiconducting materials for deep-tissue optical imaging, phototherapy and photoactivation

J Li, K Pu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Biophotonics as a highly interdisciplinary frontier often requires the assistance of optical
agents to control the light pathways in cells, tissues and living organisms for specific …

Near-infrared fluorophores for biomedical imaging

G Hong, AL Antaris, H Dai - Nature biomedical engineering, 2017 - nature.com
In vivo near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging is an emerging biomedical imaging
modality for use in both fundamental scientific research and clinical practice. Owing to …

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 …

Organic semiconducting agents for deep‐tissue molecular imaging: second near‐infrared fluorescence, self‐luminescence, and photoacoustics

Q Miao, K Pu - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Optical imaging has played a pivotal role in biology and medicine, but it faces challenges of
relatively low tissue penetration and poor signal‐to‐background ratio due to light scattering …

Recent advances in near-infrared II fluorophores for multifunctional biomedical imaging

F Ding, Y Zhan, X Lu, Y Sun - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, owing to unsatisfactory clinical imaging clarity and depths in the living body
for early diagnosis and prognosis, novel imaging modalities with high bioimaging …

Carbon nanomaterials for biological imaging and nanomedicinal therapy

G Hong, S Diao, AL Antaris, H Dai - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanomaterials are a class of low-dimensional materials that have aroused a great
deal of interest in the past 30 years since the spectacular debut of fullerene, the first member …

Lanthanide nanoparticles: from design toward bioimaging and therapy

H Dong, SR Du, XY Zheng, GM Lyu, LD Sun… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Lanthanides refer to the 15 elements located at the sixth period and IIIB group in the periodic
table, ranging from lanthanum to lutetium, with the electronic configuration of [Xe] 4f n–1 5d …

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 …