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Title: Tailoring dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticle excitation bands towards excitation wavelength selective imaging

Abstract

One of the key roadblocks in UCNP development is its extremely limited choices of excitation wavelengths. We report a generic design to program UCNPs to possess highly tunable dye characteristic excitation bands. Using such distinctive properties, we were able to develop a new excitation wavelength selective security imaging. Finally, this work unleashed the greater freedom of the excitation wavelengths of the upconversion nanoparticles and we believe it is a game-changer in the field and this method will enable numerous applications that are currently limited by existing UCNPs.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [2];  [2];  [2]
  1. Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian (China); Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian (China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1257856
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nanoscale
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 44; Journal ID: ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Wu, Xiang, Lee, Hyungseok, Bilsel, Osman, Zhang, Yuanwei, Li, Zhanjun, Chen, Teresa, Liu, Yi, Duan, Chunying, Shen, Jie, Punjabi, Amol, and Han, Gang. Tailoring dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticle excitation bands towards excitation wavelength selective imaging. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1039/c5nr05437k.
Wu, Xiang, Lee, Hyungseok, Bilsel, Osman, Zhang, Yuanwei, Li, Zhanjun, Chen, Teresa, Liu, Yi, Duan, Chunying, Shen, Jie, Punjabi, Amol, & Han, Gang. Tailoring dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticle excitation bands towards excitation wavelength selective imaging. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr05437k
Wu, Xiang, Lee, Hyungseok, Bilsel, Osman, Zhang, Yuanwei, Li, Zhanjun, Chen, Teresa, Liu, Yi, Duan, Chunying, Shen, Jie, Punjabi, Amol, and Han, Gang. Thu . "Tailoring dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticle excitation bands towards excitation wavelength selective imaging". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr05437k. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1257856.
@article{osti_1257856,
title = {Tailoring dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticle excitation bands towards excitation wavelength selective imaging},
author = {Wu, Xiang and Lee, Hyungseok and Bilsel, Osman and Zhang, Yuanwei and Li, Zhanjun and Chen, Teresa and Liu, Yi and Duan, Chunying and Shen, Jie and Punjabi, Amol and Han, Gang},
abstractNote = {One of the key roadblocks in UCNP development is its extremely limited choices of excitation wavelengths. We report a generic design to program UCNPs to possess highly tunable dye characteristic excitation bands. Using such distinctive properties, we were able to develop a new excitation wavelength selective security imaging. Finally, this work unleashed the greater freedom of the excitation wavelengths of the upconversion nanoparticles and we believe it is a game-changer in the field and this method will enable numerous applications that are currently limited by existing UCNPs.},
doi = {10.1039/c5nr05437k},
journal = {Nanoscale},
number = 44,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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