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NANOSCALE
Volume 5, Issue 17, Pages 8084-8089Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3nr01916k
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- NSF of China [11004189, 11174277, 10904142, 61275202, 61275197]
- CAS of China
- KNAW of the Netherlands
- IOP program of the Netherlands
- John van Genus foundation
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The application of upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), especially in vivo, has so far been hampered by their relatively low upconversion efficiency. In this work, a strategy of Li+ doping was revisited with the aim of enhancing UV to blue UC luminescence of NaYF4:Yb3+, Tm3+ nanocrystals. We have demonstrated that the short wavelength UC emission bands were indeed significantly enhanced. Compared to lithium-free NaYF4:Yb3+, Tm3+, the UC emission intensities of 452 nm and 479 nm of the NPs co-doped with 7 mol% Li+ ions were increased by 8 and 5 times, respectively. The mechanism of the enhancement was discussed and the improvement of the nanoparticles' crystallinity and the distortion of the local symmetry around the Tm3+ ions, when the Li+ ions were introduced, were confirmed to be the origin of the improvement.
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