LANTHANIDE OXYIODIDES

Lanthanide-based Probes

■ Abstract Using luminescent lanthanides, instead of conventional fluorophores, as donor molecules in resonance energy transfer measurements offers many technical advantages and opens up a wide range of new applications. Advantages include farther measurable distances (∼100 Å) with greater accuracy, insensitivity to incomplete labeling, and the ability to use generic relatively large labels, wh...

The lanthanide contraction revisited.

A complete, isostructural series of complexes with La-Lu (except Pm) with the ligand TREN-1,2-HOIQO has been synthesized and structurally characterized by means of single-crystal X-ray analysis. All complexes are 1D-polymeric species in the solid state, with the lanthanide being in an eight-coordinate, distorted trigonal-dodecahedral environment with a donor set of eight unique oxygen atoms. Th...

Lanthanide - doped upconversion nanoparticles

Lanthanide oxide nanoparticles in biology

Lanthanide oxide nanoparticles attract great interest as potential fluorescent labels for biological applications. They offer long fluorescence lifetimes (about 1 ms) and a lack of photo bleaching. These properties allow the label fluorescence to be separated from the short-lived bio fluorescence and make possible the development of new detection techniques in biochemistry. The morphology of th...

Separation of Lanthanide-binding Cells

A new method for magnetic separation of cells is described. Based on cellular concentration of complexed paramagnetic cations from a carrier solution, the method achieves highly repeatable separations, at lower magnetization fields, than existing HGMS cell-separation methods. Feasibility has been shown for erbium and dysprosium, with whole blood as the sample. Single-pass magnetic separation ef...