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 …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are capable of converting near-
infra-red excitation into visible and ultraviolet emission. Their unique optical properties have …

Hypoxia development in tumor is closely associated with its increased aggressiveness and
strong resistance to therapy, leading to the poor prognosis in several cancer types …

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 …

In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

Theranostics is a concept of integrating imaging and therapy into a single platform for use in
the next generation of personalized medicine to meet the challenges in modern health …

Manipulating topological arrangement is a powerful tool for tuning energy migration in
natural photosynthetic proteins and artificial polymers. Here, we report an inorganic optical …

Optical characteristics of luminescent materials, such as emission profile and lifetime, play
an important role in their applications in optical data storage, document security, diagnostics …

Luminescent materials, also called phosphors, are defined as solids that can absorb and
convert certain types of energy into radiation of light.(1) Among all kinds of phosphors, rare …

Lanthanide doped nanoparticles (Ln: NPs) hold promise as novel luminescent probes for
numerous applications in nanobiophotonics. Despite excellent photostability, narrowband …