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Highly efficient lanthanide upconverting nanomaterials: Progresses and challenges
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The challenges and opportunities to realize the highly efficient upconversion nanomaterials by systematic comparison of the advantages and shortcomings between UCNPs and QDs & organic dyes from various aspects, such as the luminescence mechanism, multicolor emission, luminescent stability, efficiency, ultra-small nanocrystals fabrication and so on.About:
This article is published in Nano Today.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 170 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Photon upconversion.read more
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Energy transfer in lanthanide upconversion studies for extended optical applications
TL;DR: A fundamental understanding of energy transfer in lanthanide-supported photon upconversion is presented and the emerging progress in excitation selection based on the energy transfer within lanthanides ions or activation from antennae is introduced.
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Lanthanide-doped upconversion nano-bioprobes: electronic structures, optical properties, and biodetection
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.
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Lab on upconversion nanoparticles: optical properties and applications engineering via designed nanostructure
TL;DR: A comprehensive survey of the latest advances made in developing lanthanide-doped UCNPs is provided, which includes excitation and emission energy levels guided designing of the UCNP nanostructure, the synthesis techniques to fabricate the nanost structure with optimum energy level structure and optical properties, the fabrication ofUCNPs-based nanocomposites to extend the applications by introducing the additional functional components, or integrating the functional moiety into one nanocomPOSite.
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Enhancing luminescence in lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles.
TL;DR: The underlying principles of controlling energy transfer through lanthanide doping are presented, the major advances and key challenging issues in improving upconversion luminescence are overviewed, and the likely directions of future research in the field are considered.
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Epitaxial Seeded Growth of Rare‐Earth Nanocrystals with Efficient 800 nm Near‐Infrared to 1525 nm Short‐Wavelength Infrared Downconversion Photoluminescence for In Vivo Bioimaging
TL;DR: With efficient SWIR emission at 1525 nm, the probe is detectable in tissues at depths of up to 18 mm with a low detection threshold concentration and highlights the potential of the probe for the in vivo monitoring of areas that are otherwise difficult to analyze.
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