1 Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. jean-claude.bunzli@epfl.ch.
2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. jean-claude.bunzli@epfl.ch.
Lanthanide-doped nanoscintillators are taking the lead in several important fields including radiation detection, biomedicine, both at the level of diagnosis and therapy, and information encoding.