Journal
MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 36, Issue 9, Pages 790-827Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201400588
Keywords
nanocomposites; nanohybrids; nanoparticles; polymers; upconversion luminescence
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 51332008, 51372241, 51272248, 51172228, 21221061, 51472231]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB643803]
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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.
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