Lanthanide-doped nanophosphor

Buissette V, Giaume D, Gacoin T et al (2006) Aqueous routes to lanthanide-doped oxide nanophosphors. J Mater Chem 16 529-539... 

Li L, Jiang WG, Pan HH et al (2007) Improved luminescence of lanthanide(III)-doped nanophosphors by linear aggregation. J Phys Chem C 111 4111 115... 

Shan J. N., J. B. Chen, J. Meng, J. Collins, W. Sohoyejo, J. S. Friedherg and Y. G. Ju, Biofunctionahzation, cytotoxicity, and ceU uptake of lanthanide doped hydrophohicaUy hgated NaYF4 upconversion nanophosphors, J. AppL Phys., 104 (2008). 

Haase and co-workers have extensively studied the synthesis of high-quantum-yield nanophosphors such as Eu-, Tb- or Er-doped lanthanide phosphates (Riwotzki et al., 2000, 2001 Lehmann et al., 2004 Kompe et al., 2003 Lehmann et al., 2003). For example, the photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield of the CePO Tb core nanocrystals (4-6 nm) diluted... 

A variety of luminescent nanoparticles have been specifically devised for con-focal and multiphoton microscopy. These include nanomaterials, such as silica-based nanoparticles doped with two-photon-absorbing fluorophores, able to exhibit aggregation-enhanced fluorescence, gold nanoparticles, semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots/rods), and nanophosphors, viz., ceramic nanoparticles containing luminescent lanthanide ions. 

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