CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN CHINESE UNIVERSITIES
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2025
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IF 3
Yan Shaohan,Wang Lijing,Shan Pengnian,Lin Xue,Shi Weilong
Against the backdrop of increasing energy shortages, hydrogen energy has garnered significant attention as a green and clean alternative energy source. To fully exploit a broader portion of the solar spectrum, we designed a Y 2 O 3 :Yb 3+ , Er 3+ /ZnIn 2 S 4 (denoted as YYE/ZIS) composite photocatalyst with a well-defined loaded structure of coating Y 2 O 3 :Yb 3+ , Er 3+ nanoparticles on the ZnIn2S4 micro-flowers, capable of efficiently utilizing near-infrared (NIR) light through an up-conversion mechanism. The introduction of Yb 3+ and Er 3+ ions endows the Y 2 O 3 with excellent up-conversion luminescence properties, enabling the effective conversion of lowenergy NIR photons into high-energy visible light over YYE/ZIS composite, which subsequently activates the ZIS component for NIR-driven photocatalytic hydrogen production. Photoelectrochemical characterizations reveal that the loaded structure significantly facilitates efficient charge separation and migration at the interface, while markedly suppressing the recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs, thereby enhancing the overall photocatalytic performance. Remarkably, the catalyst demonstrates excellent NIR-response hydrogen evolution performance (16.3 μmol·g -1 ·h -1 ) even in the absence of noble metal co-catalysts, such as Pt, achieving a hydrogen production rate approximately 10.9 times higher than that of pristine ZIS. This work proposes a novel approach for constructing up-conversion-enabled composite photocatalysts with rationally engineered interfacial architectures.
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材料科学
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能源化学
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纳米技术
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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
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2017
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IF 2.446
Tie Cong,Yadan Ding,Xueqing Yu,Yue Mu,Xia Hong,Yichun Liu
A series of Cd 2+ doped hexagonal-phase NaYF 4 : Yb 3+ , Er 3+ upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) were synthesized via solvothermal method, and the effect of Cd 2+ on the upconversion luminescence (UCL) properties was investigated in detail. It was found that the introduction of Cd 2+ could enhance the UCL intensities of NaYF 4 : Yb 3+ , Er 3+ UCNPs significantly. The maximum enhancement occurred when the doping concentration of Cd 2+ was 7 mol%. Compared with the UCNPs without Cd 2+ doping, the total integral emission intensity was enhanced by ∼38 times. It was related to the unit cell expansion and the generated F − vacancies, which could decrease the crystal symmetry around the Er 3+ ions. The results shall facilitate the improvement of UCL properties and the potential applications of UCNPs in lighting, solar cells, optics encoding and so on.
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材料科学
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纳米技术
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光学
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高影响因子
JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
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2014
·Vol. 14
·期 5
·3887-3892
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IF 1.339
Shao Wanyue,Sun Zhengang,Hua Ruinian,Zhang Wei,Zhao Jun,Na Liyan
Water-soluble BaYF5:Yb3+/Er3+ nanoparticles with the surface functionalized by a layer of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) were synthesized via a facile one-step PAA-assisted hydrothermal method. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) protein was conjugated with BaYF5:Yb3+/Er3+
upconversion nanoparticles via free carboxylic acid groups on the surface of nanoparticles. The final products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), infrared (IR) spectrophotometry, ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometry and photoluminescence spectroscopy
(PL). The XRD results showed that PAA-capped BaYF5:Yb3+/Er3+ upconversion nanoparticles could be obtained via a PAA assisted hydrothermal process with the pH value of 8 at 200 °C for 24 h. The TEM results showed that the morphology of BaYF5:Yb3+/Er3+
nanoparticles was spherical particles with an average diameter of about 4 nm. The IR and UV spectra showed that BSA has been conjugated with BaYF5:Yb3+/Er3+ up-conversion nanoparticles. The luminescence properties of BaYF5:Yb3+/Er3+
up-conversion nanoparticles were also studied. The luminescence properties of the products suggest that BaYF5:Yb3+/Er3+ upconversion nanoparticles have promising applications for labels in biological assays.
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材料科学
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生物化学
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纳米技术
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EPL
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2011
·Vol. 96
·期 1
·18001
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IF 2.753
A. H. Li,Q. Lü
The knowledge of the power density for which luminescence intensity reversal begins with power increase is of valuable importance for practical applications. Under 980 nm CW diode laser excitation, the maximum upconversion luminescence intensities were obtained at 4800, 5700, and 7100 W/cm2 for 2H9/2→4I15/2, 2H11/2&4S3/2→4I15/2, and 4F9/2→4I15/2 transition luminescences, respectively, in compact powder composed by cubic-phase NaYF4:
Yb3+,Er3+ nanoparticles with a most probable diameter of ∼46 nm. It was revealed experimentally that the reversal power density decreases as luminescent level rises. Excitation increase combined with radiative quantum efficiency decrease as power increase can reproduce this "n"-shape power dependence relationship.
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材料科学
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光学
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Optical Materials Express
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2016
·Vol. 6
·期 4
·1056-1064
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IF 2.657
Lili Huo,Jiajia Zhou,Ruozhen Wu,Junfei Ren,Shengjun Zhang,Junjie Zhang,Shiqing Xu
Hexagonal-phase NaYF4: Yb3+, Er3+ nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely used as the most efficient NIR-to-visible upconversion (UC) luminescent and probe in bioscience. Here, we exploited not only the function of dual-mode emission of β-NaYF4: Yb3+, Er3+ NPs in the near infrared (NIR) and visible regions with single wavelength excitation at 980 nm, but also the function of physiological temperature sensing with the luminescence of Er3+ in the visible region. The structural and optical characteristics of β-NaYF4: Yb3+, Er3+ NPs were obtained using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM),and fluorescence spectral measurements, respectively; the mechanism for the energy transfer has been suggested with emphasis on the optimized Er/Yb concentration for most efficient UC. Due to the UC and down-shifting NIR properties, we achieved the dual-functional nanoparticles with potential application in physiological range temperature sensing and bioimaging simultaneously.
研究领域:
生物医学工程
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纳米技术
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光学成像
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高影响因子
CRYSTENGCOMM
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2022
·Vol. 24
·期 9
·1752-1763
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IF 3.756
Mingzhou Meng,Rui Zhang,Xinmeng Fa,Jianghua Yang,Zhenlong Cheng,Anees A. Ansari,Jun Ou,Christian Wurth,Ute Resch-Genger
A series of NaYF4:Yb3+/Tm3+@NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ nanoparticles doped with Tm3+ and Er3+ were successfully prepared by the solvothermal method. Under 980 nm laser excitation, intense upconversion emission peaks of Tm3+ and Er3+ were observed for all samples. By doping Tm3+ and Er3+ with core–shell partitioning, not only a significant increase in fluorescence intensity could be achieved, but also simultaneous temperature measurements on multiple thermocouple energy levels could be realised. In addition, the temperature sensing performance of different thermocouple energy levels was also investigated, and it was found that the 3F3 → 3H6 and 1G4 → 3F4 thermocouple energy level pairs of Tm3+ were the best, with maximum absolute sensitivity and maximum relative sensitivity of up to 0.0250 K−1 and 2.155% K−1 respectively, higher than the sensitivity of other thermocouple energy levels. It has a temperature resolution of less than 0.0139 K, which is lower than that of most materials available today. By using this material as a probe to build a fiber optic temperature sensor platform, it was found to have reliable temperature measurement performance.
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材料科学
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光学
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纳米技术
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高影响因子
RSC Advances
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2016
·Vol. 6
·期 31
·26280-26287
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IF 3.289
Binbin Li,Heng Liu,Chuanbin Sun,Zeeshan Ahmad,Zhaohui Ren,Xiang Li,Gaorong Han
The investigation of nano-carriers with controllable and trackable drug release kinetics has attracted worldwide attention for new tumor theranostic strategies with catabatic side effects. Herein, a range of monodispersed core–shell structured photoluminescent SrTiO3:Yb3+,Er3+@mSiO2 nanoparticles were designed and synthesized. The surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) was used to vary the microstructure of the mesoporous SiO2 shell. The specific surface area and pore volume increase proportionally with the content of CTAB. Consequently, the doxorubicin (DOX) loading capacity increases, and the drug release kinetics possesses a sustained behaviour. More importantly, the DOX release kinetics was found to correspond well to the evolution of the up-conversion luminescence (UCL) phenomenon. More rapid drug release induces more rapid photoluminescence enhancement, and vice versa. This study has therefore been anticipated to suggest another promising multifunctional drug delivery platform for advanced chemotherapies.
研究领域:
纳米医学
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药物递送系统
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生物材料
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Chinese Physics B
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2022
·Vol. 31
·期 7
·078701
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IF 1.652
Hua-Wei Deng,Di-Hu Chen
Multifunctional luminescent materials are attracting attention nowadays. In this work, monoclinic Gd2O3:Er3+ nanoparticles, which possess up-conversion luminescence and down-conversion luminescence properties, were successfully synthesized by laser ablation in liquid (LAL) technique. Up-conversion luminescence and down-conversion luminescence of monoclinic Gd2O3:Er3+ nanoparticles were got under the excitation of 980 nm and 379 nm, respectively. In addition, tunable luminescence was got. Furthermore, the cytotoxicity of the nanoparticles is low and the fluorescence of the nanoparticles in cell is also strong enough. The results indicate that the Gd2O3:Er3+ nanoparticles synthesized by LAL technique are promising candidates for bio-imaging or other fields that require controllable fluorescence.
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
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2017
·Vol. 53
·期 2
·1395-1403
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IF 2.599
Yi Mengji,Liu Yuefeng,Gao Huiping,Huang Zhangyu,Liang Jiwei,Mao Yanli
In this manuscript, Ni 2+ ions-doped NaYF 4 :Yb 3+ /Er 3+ nanoparticles have been synthesized via a modified hydrothermal method. The upconversion luminescence intensities of the green (G) and red (R) emission of NaYF 4 :Yb 3+ /Er 3+ co-doped with 20 mol% Ni 2+ ions are the strongest which increase 32.84 and 20.99 times than that without doping Ni 2+ , respectively. In addition, the R/G ratio decreases with the concentration of Ni 2+ increasing from 0 to 40 mol%. The underlying reason for luminescence enhanced and the R/G ratio decreased by Ni 2+ doping is explored by a series of controlled experiments, and the mechanism based on the crystal field asymmetry, different substitution by Ni 2+ , the energy transition of Er 3+ is studied in detail. The study indicates that the misshapen crystal field plays an important role in enhancement fluorescence emission, and several factors affect the R/G ratio including the crystal field, the substitution site and the energy transition. Our result may play a certain function for study and design of high-performance upconversion materials.
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材料科学
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光学
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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANORGANISCHE UND ALLGEMEINE CHEMIE
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2019
·Vol. 645
·期 21
·1240-1246
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IF 1.337
Lu Yuan,Ming Kang,Guanjun Chang,Xiangmeng Lv,Simin Shen,Rong Sun
Due to the unique size effects, nanomaterials in infrared absorption have attracted much attention for their strong absorption in the infrared region. To achieve the infrared multi-band absorption, we propose to synthesize a core-shell structure nanomaterial consisting of NaYF 4 :Yb 3+ , Er 3+ core and a layer of SiO 2 as shell. A series of NaYF 4 :Yb 3+ , Er 3+ nanocrystals were synthesized through hydrothermal method by adjusting the ratio of citric acid(CA)-to-NaOH, and the effects of CA concentration, and NaOH concentration were studied in detail. NaYF 4 :Yb 3+ , Er 3+ @SiO 2 nanoparticles were synthesized by sol-gel method using TEOS as silica source. The results show that the core-shell NaYF 4 :Yb 3+ , Er 3+ @SiO 2 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized. Up-conversion spectra of these nanoparticles were recorded with 980 nm laser excitation under room temperature. There are no changes of the emission centers of nanoparticles before or after silica coating, but the emission intensities of nanoparticles after silica coating are weakened. Furthermore, the property of infrared multi-band absorption was tested through ultraviolet-visible-near infrared spectrophotometer and infrared absorption spectra. The results illustrate that the multi-band infrared absorption nanomaterial was successfully synthesized.
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材料科学
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纳米技术
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光学
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LANGMUIR
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2013
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IF 4.187
Ziyong Cheng,Ruitao Chai,Pingan Ma,Yunlu Dai,Xiaojiao Kang,Hongzhou Lian,Zhiyao Hou,Chunxia Li,Jun Lin
Bilayer thermosensitive P(NIPAm-co-AAm) hydrogel discs were prepared by a facile UV light initiation process from N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAm) and acrylamide (AAm) monomers’ cross-linking copolymerization. Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) as a pore-forming agent was added in order to form a porous structure and improve the water content in the hydrogel. Functional materials of NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ nanoparticles and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were incorporated into different layers of the P(NIPAm-co-AAm) hydrogel for the purpose of up-conversion luminescence labeling and the NIR light antenna effect, respectively. Significantly improved drug release from composite hydrogels was achieved in response to 980 nm NIR light irradiation by using lysozyme as a macromolecular drug. The multifunctional hydrogel reported here provides a platform for simultaneous NIR luminescence labeling and NIR-driven drug release.
研究领域:
材料科学
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生物医学工程
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纳米医学
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DOI
PubMed
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