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- Title
Synthesis and Application of Nanohybrids Based on Upconverting Nanoparticles and Polymers.
- Authors
Cheng, Ziyong; Lin, Jun
- Abstract
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have been an emerging and exciting research field in recent years due to their unique luminescent properties of converting near-infrared light to shorter wavelength radiation. UCNPs offer excellent prospects in luminescent labeling, displays, bioimaging, bioassays, drug delivery, sensors, and anticounterfeiting applications. Along with the abundant studies and rapid progress in this area, UCNPs are promising to be a new class of luminescent probe owing to their special advantages over the conventional organic dyes and quantum dots. Among them, polymers play an important role to improve properties or endow new function of UCNPs such as for matrix materials, water solubility, linking active targeting molecules, biocompatibility, and stimuli-responsive behavior. This article briefly reviews the compositions, optical mechanisms, architectures of upconversion nanocrystals and highlights the works on various functional UCNPs/polymer nanohybrids as well as many new interesting fruits in applications.
- Subjects
SYNTHESIS of Nanocomposite materials; POLYMERIZATION; RARE earth metal compound synthesis; PHOTON upconversion; NEAR infrared radiation; ORGANIC dyes; SEMICONDUCTOR quantum dots
- Publication
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2015, Vol 36, Issue 9, p790
- ISSN
1022-1336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/marc.201400588