Rare-earth do** in nanostructured inorganic materials

B Zheng, J Fan, B Chen, X Qin, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Impurity do** is a promising method to impart new properties to various materials. Due to
their unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, rare-earth ions have been …

Controlling upconversion in emerging multilayer core–shell nanostructures: from fundamentals to frontier applications

S Liu, L Yan, J Huang, Q Zhang, B Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lanthanide-based upconversion nanomaterials have recently attracted considerable
attention in both fundamental research and various frontier applications owing to their …

Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications

K Du, J Feng, X Gao, H Zhang - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have aroused extraordinary
interest due to the unique physical and chemical properties. Combining UCNPs with other …

Upconverted metal–organic framework janus architecture for near-infrared and ultrasound co-enhanced high performance tumor therapy

Z Wang, B Liu, Q Sun, L Feng, F He, P Yang, S Gai… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strict conditions such as hypoxia, overexpression of glutathione (GSH), and high
concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) limit the …

Overcoming the Achilles' heel of photodynamic therapy

W Fan, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to treat a wide range of medical conditions,
including wet age-related macular degeneration psoriasis, atherosclerosis, viral infection …

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 …

Boosting the down-shifting luminescence of rare-earth nanocrystals for biological imaging beyond 1500 nm

Y Zhong, Z Ma, S Zhu, J Yue, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In vivo fluorescence imaging in the near-infrared region between 1500–1700 nm (NIR-IIb
window) affords high spatial resolution, deep-tissue penetration, and diminished auto …

Controlling upconversion nanocrystals for emerging applications

B Zhou, B Shi, D **, X Liu - Nature nanotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals enable anti-Stokes emission with pump
intensities several orders of magnitude lower than required by conventional nonlinear …

Upconversion luminescent materials: advances and applications

J Zhou, Q Liu, W Feng, Y Sun, F Li - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Luminescence-based techniques continue to attract considerable attention due not only to
their current range of applications but also to their wide potential in the fields of optical …

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 …