Brightness is a fundamental property of fluorescent nanomaterials reflecting their capacity to
absorb and emit light. In sensing materials, brightness is crucial for high-sensitivity (bio) …

Research related to the development and application of luminescent nanoparticles (LNPs)
for chemical and biological analysis and imaging is flourishing. Novel materials and new …

Over the last few years, progress has been made across the nanomedicine landscape, in
particular, the invention of contemporary nanostructures for cancer diagnosis and …

Great progress has been made in inorganic persistent phosphors, especially in the recent
two decades, motivated by the discoveries of the SrAl 2 O 4: Eu 2+-Dy 3+ in the green and …

Since the seminal report by Adachi and co-workers in 2012, there has been a veritable
explosion of interest in the design of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) …

The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

Noble metal nanoclusters are in the intermediate state between discrete atoms and
plasmonic nanoparticles and are of significance due to their atomically accurate structures …

Advantages such as strong signal strength, resistance to photobleaching, tunable
fluorescence emissions, high sensitivity, and biocompatibility are the driving forces for the …

Luminescence quenching is a process exploited in transversal applications in science and
technology and it has been studied for a long time. The luminescence quenching …

The development of polymeric luminescent nanomaterials for biomedical applications has
recently attracted a large amount of attention due to the remarkable advantages of these …