Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are one of the more popular nanomaterials
currently utilized within biological applications. However, what is not widely appreciated is …

Present-day advanced technologies heavily rely on the exciting magnetic and spectroscopic
properties of lanthanide ions. In particular, their ability to generate well-characterized and …

Abstract All-inorganic CsPbX3 (X= Cl, Br, and I) perovskite quantum dots (PeQDs) have
shown great promise in optoelectronics and photovoltaics owing to their outstanding linear …

Although large amount of effort has been invested in combating thermal quenching that
severely degrades the performance of luminescent materials particularly at high …

Conspectus Resonance energy transfer (RET) describes the process that energy is
transferred from an excited donor to an acceptor molecule, leading to a reduction in the …

Photon‐upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) are lanthanide‐doped nanocrystals that emit
visible light under near‐infrared excitation (anti‐Stokes emission). This unique optical …

Fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs), including semiconductor NPs (Quantum Dots), metal NPs,
silica NPs, polymer NPs, etc., have been a major focus of research and development during …

Chromophoric iridium (III) complex-coated NaYF4: 20% Yb, 1.6% Er, 0.4% Tm nanocrystals
are demonstrated as a ratiometric upconversion luminescence (UCL) probe for highly …

Photoswitchable molecules that undergo nanoscopic changes upon photoisomerisation can
be harnessed to control macroscopic properties such as colour, solubility, shape, and …

Recently, nanocrystals (NCs) doped with lanthanides (Ln3+) have come to the forefront of
functional nanomaterials for a variety of biological applications due to their sharp f–f …