Advances in highly doped upconversion nanoparticles

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Abstract

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are capable of converting near-infra-red excitation into visible and ultraviolet emission. Their unique optical properties have advanced a broad range of applications, such as fluorescent microscopy, deep-tissue bioimaging, nanomedicine, optogenetics, security labelling and volumetric display. However, the constraint of concentration quenching on upconversion luminescence has hampered the nanoscience community to develop bright UCNPs with a large number of dopants. This review surveys recent advances in developing highly doped UCNPs, highlights the strategies that bypass the concentration quenching effect, and discusses new optical properties as well as emerging applications enabled by these nanoparticles.

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Wen, S., Zhou, J., Zheng, K., Bednarkiewicz, A., Liu, X., & Jin, D. (2018). Advances in highly doped upconversion nanoparticles. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04813-5

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