Near-infrared (NIR) lanthanide molecular probes for bioimaging and biosensing

Y Ning, M Zhu, JL Zhang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent advances in NIR detector bloom the design of NIR fluorophores for bioimaging
guided diagnosis and therapeutics, with reduced light-tissue interaction, enhanced signal-to …

Photoluminescent, upconversion luminescent and nonlinear optical metal-organic frameworks: From fundamental photophysics to potential applications

TN Nguyen, FM Ebrahim, KC Stylianou - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous materials prepared by the self-
assembly of metal ions or clusters with organic ligands. The unique characteristics of MOFs …

High quantum yields from perfluorinated binolate erbium complexes and their circularly polarized luminescence

JA Adewuyi, G Ung - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024 - ACS Publications
High quantum yield and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) brightness values are
reported from Shibasaki-type erbium complexes supported by a perfluorinated Binol ligand …

Tunable optical molecular thermometers based on metallacrowns

EV Salerno, AN Carneiro Neto… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The effect of ligands' energy levels on thermal dependence of lanthanide emission was
examined to create new molecular nanothermometers. A series of Ln2Ga8L8′ L8 …

Chiral lanthanide hexaazamacrocycles for circularly polarized luminescence, high relaxivity and magnetic resonance imaging

Y Tang, M Jian, B Tang, Z Zhu, Z Wang… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Multifunctional lanthanide complexes have been extensively studied in recent years owing
to their widespread applications in physics, chemistry and biology, including quantum …

Lanthanide-based tools for the investigation of cellular environments

E Mathieu, A Sipos, E Demeyere, D Phipps… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological probes constructed from lanthanides can provide a variety of readout signals,
such as the luminescence of Eu (III), Tb (III), Yb (III), Sm (III) and Dy (III), and the proton …

Dy3+ White Light Emission Can Be Finely Controlled by Tuning the First Coordination Sphere of Ga3+/Dy3+ Metallacrown Complexes

SV Eliseeva, EV Salerno… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single lanthanide (III) ion white light emission is in high demand since it provides the
advantage of requiring only one chromophore for the control of the color. Herein, a series of …

Design of lanthanide-based metal–organic frameworks with enhanced near-infrared emission

TN Nguyen, SV Eliseeva, A Gładysiak… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A strategy based on the use of ligand steric hindrance and metal do** is reported for the
design and synthesis of near-infrared (NIR) emitting lanthanide-based metal–organic …

Luminescent Lanthanides in Biorelated Applications: From Molecules to Nanoparticles and Diagnostic Probes to Therapeutics

C Alexander, Z Guo, PB Glover, S Faulkner… - Chemical …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Lanthanides are particularly effective in their clinical applications in magnetic resonance
imaging and diagnostic assays. They have open-shell 4 f electrons that give rise to …

Visible, near-infrared, and dual-range luminescence spanning the 4f series sensitized by a gallium (III)/lanthanide (III) metallacrown structure

EV Salerno, SV Eliseeva, BL Schneider… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide (III) ions (Ln3+) in coordination compounds exhibit unique luminescence
properties with narrow and characteristic ff transitions throughout the visible and near …