Lanthanide doped nanoheaters with reliable and absolute temperature feedback

Low temperature synthesis and characterization of lanthanide-doped BaTiO3 nanocrystals.

The vapor diffusion sol-gel (VDSG) method was employed for the room-temperature synthesis of ~10 nm, aliovalently doped 0.4, 0.8, and 1.6 mol% La:BaTiO3 and 0.4, 0.6, and 1.2 mol% Dy:BaTiO3 nanocrystals. Maximum ensemble relative permittivities of 176 and 208 were observed in the 0.8 mol% La:BaTiO3 and the 1.2 mol% Dy:BaTiO3 nanocrystals, respectively, relative to 89 for undoped BaTiO3 (at 1 MH...

Lanthanide - doped upconversion nanoparticles

Tough photoluminescent hydrogels doped with lanthanide.

Photoluminescent hydrogels have emerged as novel soft materials with potential applications in many fields. Although many photoluminescent hydrogels have been fabricated, their scope of usage has been severely limited by their poor mechanical performance. Here, a facile strategy is reported for preparing lanthanide (Ln)-alginate/polyacrylamide (PAAm) hydrogels with both high toughness and photo...

Synthesis and Applications of Lanthanide-Doped Nanocrystals

In recent years, Lanthanide (Ln3+)-doped nanocrystals have become promising alternatives to organic fluorophore because Ln3+ ions can exhibit unique luminescent properties, such as large anti-Stokes shifts, low auto fluorescence background, low toxicity and high penetration depth [1]. In terms of the mechanism of luminescence, luminescence of Ln3+ ions can be divided into down-conversion and up...

A visual and reversible assay for temperature using thioflavin T-doped lanthanide/nucleotide coordination polymers.

In this work, we prepared a type of thioflavin T (ThT)-doped lanthanide/nucleotide coordination polymer by the self-assembly of ThT, europium ions (Eu(3+)) and nucleotides (guanosine monophosphate, GMP) in aqueous solution (i.e. ThT/Eu/GMP). The Eu/GMP coordination polymers show excellent adaptive inclusion properties for ThT in a convenient one-step approach, which can readily enhance the fluo...