Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications

Kaimin Du; Jing Feng; Xuan Gao; Hongjie Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00871-z

Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications

Light Sci Appl. 2022 Jul 13;11(1):222. doi: 10.1038/s41377-022-00871-z.

Authors

Kaimin Du^{1

2}, Jing Feng^{3

4}, Xuan Gao^{1

5}, Hongjie Zhang^{6

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, 116023, Dalian, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, China. fengj@ciac.ac.cn.
⁴ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China. fengj@ciac.ac.cn.
⁵ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, China. hongjie@ciac.ac.cn.
⁷ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China. hongjie@ciac.ac.cn.
⁸ Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China. hongjie@ciac.ac.cn.

Abstract

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have aroused extraordinary interest due to the unique physical and chemical properties. Combining UCNPs with other functional materials to construct nanocomposites and achieve synergistic effect abound recently, and the resulting nanocomposites have shown great potentials in various fields based on the specific design and components. This review presents a summary of diverse designs and synthesis strategies of UCNPs-based nanocomposites, including self-assembly, in-situ growth and epitaxial growth, as well as the emerging applications in bioimaging, cancer treatments, anti-counterfeiting, and photocatalytic fields. We then discuss the challenges, opportunities, and development tendency for developing UCNPs-based nanocomposites.

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