Emerging strategies in enhancing singlet oxygen generation of nano-photosensitizers toward advanced phototherapy

M Tavakkoli Yaraki, B Liu, YN Tan - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
The great promise of photodynamic therapy (PDT) has thrusted the rapid progress of
develo** highly effective photosensitizers (PS) in killing cancerous cells and bacteria. To …

Upconversion for photovoltaics–a review of materials, devices and concepts for performance enhancement

JC Goldschmidt, S Fischer - Advanced Optical Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Upconversion of low‐energy photons into high‐energy photons increases the efficiency of
photovoltaic devices by converting photons with energies below the absorption threshold of …

Anomalous upconversion amplification induced by surface reconstruction in lanthanide sublattices

H Xu, S Han, R Deng, Q Su, Y Wei, Y Tang, X Qin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Upconversion nanocrystals have been extensively investigated for optical imaging and
biomedical applications,. However, their photoluminescence is strongly attenuated 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 …

Energy-cascaded upconversion in an organic dye-sensitized core/shell fluoride nanocrystal

G Chen, J Damasco, H Qiu, W Shao… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles hold promises for bioimaging, solar cells,
and volumetric displays. However, their emission brightness and excitation wavelength …

Emerging frontiers of upconversion nanoparticles

B Chen, F Wang - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles capable of converting near-infrared
excitation into UV and visible emissions have attracted considerable research interests in …

Hybrid molecule–nanocrystal photon upconversion across the visible and near-infrared

Z Huang, X Li, M Mahboub, KM Hanson, VM Nichols… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The ability to upconvert two low energy photons into one high energy photon has potential
applications in solar energy, biological imaging, and data storage. In this Letter, CdSe and …

Single upconversion nanoparticle imaging at sub-10 W cm−2 irradiance

Q Liu, Y Zhang, CS Peng, T Yang, LM Joubert… - Nature photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are promising single-molecule
probes given their non-blinking, photobleaching-resistant luminescence on infrared …

Chemical interface dam** depends on electrons reaching the surface

B Foerster, A Joplin, K Kaefer, S Celiksoy, S Link… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metallic nanoparticles show extraordinary strong light absorption near their plasmon
resonance, orders of magnitude larger compared to nonmetallic nanoparticles. This …

Nanochemistry advancing photon conversion in rare-earth nanostructures for theranostics

R Lv, M Raab, Y Wang, J Tian, J Lin… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rare-earth (RE) doped nanoparticles show unique features of photon conversion from an
incident wavelength to a more suitable wavelength at an intended biological site, thus …