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 …

Lanthanides refer to the 15 elements located at the sixth period and IIIB group in the periodic
table, ranging from lanthanum to lutetium, with the electronic configuration of [Xe] 4f n–1 5d …

Upconversion (UC) refers to nonlinear optical processes in which the sequential absorption
of two or more photons leads to the emission of light at shorter wavelength than the …

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 …

Rare-earth upconversion nanophosphors (UCNPs), when excited by continuous-wave near-
infrared light, exhibit a unique narrow photoluminescence with higher energy. Such special …

Recently, there has been observed huge progress in the advancement of remote optical
nanothermometry, as it plays a vital role in remote, noninvasive, and remote temperature …

This feature article highlights the recent advances on the chemical synthesis, surface
modification and applications of rare earth fluoride nano-/microcrysals. In the past decade …

New generation fluorophores, also termed upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), have the
ability to convert near infrared radiations with lower energy into visible radiations with higher …

Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a unique class of optical materials and are extensively
used as building blocks for optoelectronic device architectures due to their outstanding …

This review contributes towards a systematic understanding of the mechanism of shape-
dependent effects on nanoparticles (NPs) for elaborating and predicting their properties and …