Ping Huang

TL;DR: This review focuses on the most recent advances in the development of lanthanide-doped UCNPs as potential luminescent nano-bioprobes by means of the authors' customized lanthanides photophysics measurement platforms specially designed for upconversion luminescence.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates for the first time the application of LiLuF4 :Ln(3+) core/shell UCNPs as sensitive UCL bioprobes for the detection of an important disease marker β subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) with a detection limit of 3.8 ng mL(-1) , which is comparable to the β-h CG level in the serum of normal humans.

TL;DR: The authors drive high-efficiency, tunable upconversion luminescence in perovskite quantum dots by energy transfer from lanthanide-doped nanoparticles excited by near-infrared light, to produce full-color emission with low driving power.

TL;DR: High activity towards oxidative coupling of methane and high selectivity for C2 hydrocarbons could be achieved over La2O3 nanorods with a large surface area, strong surface basic sites, electron deficient surface oxygen species and defined surface structure compared with La2 O3 nanoparticles at low temperature.

TL;DR: By utilizing the superior excitation-free persistent luminescence, this work demonstrated for the first time the application of biotinylated ZnGa2O4’s as background-free luminescent nano-bioprobes for sensitive and specific detection of avidin in a heterogeneous assay with a limit of detection down to ∼150 pM, thus revealing the great potential of these NIR PLNPs in ultrasensitive biodetection and bioimaging.