Recent advances in super-resolution optical imaging based on aggregation-induced emission

FY Zhu, LJ Mei, R Tian, C Li, YL Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Super-resolution imaging has rapidly emerged as an optical microscopy technique, offering
advantages of high optical resolution over the past two decades; achieving improved …

Engineering colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals for quantum information processing

J Almutlaq, Y Liu, WJ Mir, RP Sabatini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum information processing—which relies on spin defects or single-photon emission—
has shown quantum advantage in proof-of-principle experiments including microscopic …

Hidden triplet states at hybrid organic–inorganic interfaces

G Bao, R Deng, D **, X Liu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2025 - nature.com
Triplet states have been widely studied in phosphorescent molecules, lanthanide complexes
and triplet–triplet annihilation systems, in which they have a critical role in energy transfer …

Cross Relaxation Enables Spatiotemporal Color‐Switchable Upconversion in a Single Sandwich Nanoparticle for Information Security

J Huang, L Yan, Z An, H Wei, C Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Smart control of ionic interaction dynamics offers new possibilities for tuning and editing
luminescence properties of lanthanide‐based materials. However, it remains a daunting …

Ligand-assisted direct lithography of upconverting and avalanching nanoparticles for nonlinear photonics

JA Pan, A Skripka, C Lee, X Qi, AL Pham… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) exhibit unique nonlinear optical properties that can be
harnessed in microscopy, sensing, and photonics. However, forming high-resolution nano …

Luminescence thermometry beyond the biological realm

B Harrington, Z Ye, L Signor, AD Pickel - ACS Nanoscience Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
As the field of luminescence thermometry has matured, practical applications of
luminescence thermometry techniques have grown in both frequency and scope. Due to the …

A generalized approach to photon avalanche upconversion in luminescent nanocrystals

A Skripka, M Lee, X Qi, JA Pan, H Yang, C Lee… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photon avalanching nanoparticles (ANPs) exhibit extremely nonlinear upconverted
emission valuable for subdiffraction imaging, nanoscale sensing, and optical computing …

Infrared nanosensors of piconewton to micronewton forces

N Fardian-Melamed, A Skripka, B Ursprung, C Lee… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Mechanical force is an essential feature for many physical and biological processes,,,,,–,
and remote measurement of mechanical signals with high sensitivity and spatial resolution …

Lanthanide-Doped KMgF3 Upconversion Nanoparticles for Photon Avalanche Luminescence with Giant Nonlinearities

M Zhang, P Huang, W Zheng, X Song, X Shang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide (Ln3+)-doped photon avalanche (PA) upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs)
have great prospects in many advanced technologies; however, realizing efficient PA …

Short-Wave Infrared Upconverting Nanoparticles

X Qi, C Lee, B Ursprung, A Skripka… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optical technologies enable real-time, noninvasive analysis of complex systems but are
limited to discrete regions of the optical spectrum. While wavelengths in the short-wave …