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 …

Advances in highly doped upconversion nanoparticles

S Wen, J Zhou, K Zheng, A Bednarkiewicz, X Liu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are capable of converting near-
infra-red excitation into visible and ultraviolet emission. Their unique optical properties have …

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 …

Recent development in sensitizers for lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence

X Cheng, J Zhou, J Yue, Y Wei, C Gao, X **e… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

Direct evidence for coupled surface and concentration quenching dynamics in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals

NJJ Johnson, S He, S Diao, EM Chan… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Luminescence quenching at high dopant concentrations generally limits the dopant
concentration to less than 1–5 mol% in lanthanide-doped materials, and this remains a …

Lanthanide‐doped near‐infrared nanoparticles for biophotonics

H Li, X Wang, TY Ohulchanskyy, G Chen - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Light in the near‐infrared (NIR) spectral region is increasingly utilized in bioapplications,
providing deeper penetration in biological tissues owing to the lower absorption and …

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 …

Combating concentration quenching in upconversion nanoparticles

B Chen, F Wang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are a special class of
luminescent nanomaterials that convert multiwavelength near-infrared (NIR) excitation into …

Highly emissive dye-sensitized upconversion nanostructure for dual-photosensitizer photodynamic therapy and bioimaging

J Xu, P Yang, M Sun, H Bi, B Liu, D Yang, S Gai, F He… - Acs Nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Rare-earth-based upconversion nanotechnology has recently shown great promise for
photodynamic therapy (PDT). However, the NIR-induced PDT is greatly restricted by …

Dye-sensitized lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles

X Wang, RR Valiev, TY Ohulchanskyy… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are promising for applications as
wide as biological imaging, multimodal imaging, photodynamic therapy, volumetric displays …