ArticleNature communications2018
Over 1000-fold enhancement of upconversion luminescence using water-dispersible metal-insulator-metal nanostructures.
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- Synthesis of transition metal-sensitized lanthanide near-infrared luminescent nanoparticles.Nature protocols · 2026Review
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- Understanding of Lanthanide-Doped Core-Shell Structure at the Nanoscale Level.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A scalable fabrication method for gold nanodisk-upconverting nanoparticle hybrid nanostructures.Nanoscale · 2024Article
- Brownian Motion Governs the Plasmonic Enhancement of Colloidal Upconverting Nanoparticles.Nano letters · 2024Article
- Enhancement of upconversion photoluminescence in phosphor nanoparticle thin films using metallic nanoantennas fabricated by colloidal lithography.Materials advances · 2023Article
- Generalised analytical model of the transition power densities of the upconversion luminescence and quantum yield.Nanoscale advances · 2023Article
- Luminescent Gold Nanoclusters for Bioimaging: Increasing the Ligand Complexity.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Upconversion Emission Studies in ErMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Enhanced up-conversion photoluminescence in fluoride-oxyfluoride nanophosphor films by embedding gold nanoparticles.Materials advances · 2022Article
- Modulated Luminescence of Lanthanide Materials by Local Surface Plasmon Resonance Effect.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Selective enhancement of upconversion luminescence for enhanced ratiometric sensing.RSC advances · 2021Article
- Upconversion superburst with sub-2 μs lifetime.Nature nanotechnology · 2019Article
- Energy-Transfer Editing in Lanthanide-Activated Upconversion Nanocrystals: A Toolbox for Emerging Applications.ACS central science · 2019Review
- Rare Earth Hydroxide as a Precursor for Controlled Fabrication of Uniform β-NaYF₄ Nanoparticles: A Novel, Low Cost, and Facile Method.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Rare-earth activated upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are receiving renewed attention for use in bioimaging due to their exceptional photostability and low cytotoxicity. Often, these nanoparticles are attached to plasmonic nanostructures to enhance their photoluminescence (PL) emission. However, current wet-chemistry techniques suffer from large inhomogeneity and thus low enhancement is achieved. In this paper, we report lithographically fabricated metal-insulator-metal (MIM) nanostructures that show over 1000-fold enhancement of their PL. We demonstrate the potential for bioimaging applications by dispersing the MIMs into water and imaging bladder cancer cells with them. To our knowledge, our results represent one and two orders of magnitude improvement, respectively, over the best lithographically fabricated structures and colloidal systems in the literature. The large enhancement will allow for bioimaging and therapeutics using lower particle densities or lower excitation power densities, thus increasing the sensitivity and efficacy of such procedures while decreasing potential side effects.
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