Tailoring lanthanide nanocrystals for nanomedicine

Yan Zhang, Timothy T. Y. Tan, Wolfgang J. Parak, Marek Osinski, Kenji Yamamoto
2013 Colloidal Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications VIII  
Lanthanide nanocrystals have demonstrated strong potentials in nanomedicine due to its up-conversion and strong magnetic properties, and low toxicity. This talk will focus on strategies in lanthanide nanostructure tailoring to achieve up-conversion color emission tuning, MRI T 1 and T 2 contrast tuning, and the use of up-conversion fluorescence in drug delivery and cancer cells ablation.
doi:10.1117/12.2006288 fatcat:pzzjedc7dzaprody5w7ndgppoi