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 …

Learning from lanthanide complexes: The development of dye-lanthanide nanoparticles and their biomedical applications

G Bao, S Wen, G Lin, J Yuan, J Lin, KL Wong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coordination chemistry has been widely studied in lanthanide complexes, where organic
ligands are used to chelate individual lanthanide ions, and the complexes are broadly used …

Local structure engineering in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals for tunable upconversion emissions

H Dong, LD Sun, CH Yan - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Upconversion emissions from lanthanide-doped nanocrystals have sparked extensive
research interests in nanophotonics, biomedicine, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, etc …

High-sensitivity imaging of time-domain near-infrared light transducer

Y Gu, Z Guo, W Yuan, M Kong, Y Liu, Y Liu, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The optically transparent biological window in the near-infrared (NIR) spectral range allows
deep-tissue excitation and the detection of fluorescence signals,. Spectrum-domain …

Quantum yields, surface quenching, and passivation efficiency for ultrasmall core/shell upconverting nanoparticles

C Würth, S Fischer, B Grauel… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We synthesized and characterized a set of ultrasmall hexagonal-phase NaGdF4: 20% Yb3+,
2% Er3+ upconversion nanoparticles with core diameters of 3.7±0.5 nm. In order to assess …

Optical nanoprobes for biomedical applications: shining a light on upconverting and near-infrared emitting nanoparticles for imaging, thermal sensing, and …

E Hemmer, P Acosta-Mora, J Mendez-Ramos… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Lanthanide (Ln3+)-based nanoparticles (NPs) with light emission in the ultraviolet (UV),
visible, and near-infrared (NIR) region under NIR excitation are emerging multifunctional …

Towards efficient spectral converters through materials design for luminescent solar devices

B McKenna, RC Evans - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction photovoltaic devices exhibit a bottleneck in their efficiency due to incomplete
or inefficient harvesting of photons in the low‐or high‐energy regions of the solar spectrum …

Responsive sensors of upconversion nanoparticles

G Lin, D ** - ACS sensors, 2021 - ACS Publications
Upconversion nanoparticles are a class of luminescent materials that convert longer-
wavelength near-infrared photons into visible and ultraviolet emissions. They can respond to …

Synthesis of Core–Shell ScF3 Nanoparticles for Thermal Enhancement of Upconversion

B Ren, B Chen, J Zhao, Y Guo, X Zhang… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-doped ScF3 nanoparticles are synthesized and explored for thermal
enhancement of upconversion. A hot-injection method is developed to control the formation …

Primary luminescent nanothermometers for temperature measurements reliability assessment

JC Martins, ARN Bastos, RAS Ferreira… - Advanced Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The potential applications in disparate fields led to a rapid evolution of luminescence
thermometry. In particular, luminescent thermometry based on trivalent lanthanide ions …