A general and versatile procedure for coating of hydrophobic nanocrystals with a thin silica layer enabling facile biofunctionalization and dye incorporation

Biomimetic Surface Engineering of Lanthanide-Doped Upconversion Nanoparticles as Versatile Bioprobes

(2012) Le-Le Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Controlled Synthesis of Uniform and Monodisperse Upconversion Core/Mesoporous Silica Shell Nanocomposites for Bimodal Imaging

(2012) Jianan Liu et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Optimisation of Ligand Exchange Towards Stable Water Suspensions of Crystalline NaYF4: Er3+, Yb3+ Nanoluminophors

(2012) D. Wawrzynczyk et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Increasing Surface Area of Silica Nanoparticles With a Rough Surface

(2011) Shuping Xu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Two-Phase Synthesis of Monodisperse Silica Nanospheres with Amines or Ammonia Catalyst and Their Controlled Self-Assembly

(2011) Junzheng Wang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Upconverting Nanoparticles

(2011) Markus Haase et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Breakthrough in concentration quenching threshold of upconversion luminescence via spatial separation of the emitter doping area for bio-applications

(2011) Xiaomin Liu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

PEGylated liposome coated QDs/mesoporous silica core-shell nanoparticles for molecular imaging

(2011) Jie Pan et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Core–Shell Structured Up-Conversion Luminescent and Mesoporous NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+@nSiO2@mSiO2 Nanospheres as Carriers for Drug Delivery

(2011) Xiaojiao Kang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Mesoporous Silica-Coated Hollow Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles as PositiveT1Contrast Agents for Labeling and MRI Tracking of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells

(2011) Taeho Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mesoporous Silica Encapsulating Upconversion Luminescence Rare-Earth Fluoride Nanorods for Secondary Excitation

(2010) Jianping Yang et al.   LANGMUIR

Facile ligand-exchange with polyvinylpyrrolidone and subsequent silica coating of hydrophobic upconverting β-NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ nanoparticles

(2010) Noah J. J. Johnson et al.   Nanoscale

Morphologically controlled synthesis of colloidal upconversion nanophosphors and their shape-directed self-assembly

(2010) X. Ye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Combined Optical and MR Bioimaging Using Rare Earth Ion Doped NaYF4Nanocrystals

(2009) Rajiv Kumar et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A magnetic, luminescent and mesoporous core–shell structured composite material as drug carrier

(2009) Piaoping Yang et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Mechanism of Formation of Uniform-Sized Silica Nanospheres Catalyzed by Basic Amino Acids

(2009) Toshiyuki Yokoi et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Phosphine-free synthesis of high quality ZnSe, ZnSe/ZnS, and Cu-, Mn-doped ZnSe nanocrystals

(2009) Huaibin Shen et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Surface Modification of Upconverting NaYF4Nanoparticles with PEG−Phosphate Ligands for NIR (800 nm) Biolabeling within the Biological Window

(2009) John-Christopher Boyer et al.   LANGMUIR

Mesoporous-Silica-Coated Up-Conversion Fluorescent Nanoparticles for Photodynamic Therapy

(2009) Hai Sheng Qian et al.   Small

Multicolor Core/Shell-Structured Upconversion Fluorescent Nanoparticles

(2008) Zhengquan Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multifunctional Uniform Nanoparticles Composed of a Magnetite Nanocrystal Core and a Mesoporous Silica Shell for Magnetic Resonance and Fluorescence Imaging and for Drug Delivery

(2008) Jaeyun Kim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Biocompatibility of silica coated NaYF4 upconversion fluorescent nanocrystals

(2008) Rufaihah Abdul Jalil et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Silica Nanoparticles with Continuously Tunable Sizes: Synthesis and Size Effects on Cellular Contrast Imaging

(2008) Yuhui Jin et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Preparation and characterization of thermosensitive polymers grafted onto silica-coated iron oxide nanoparticles

(2008) Yi-Hsin Lien et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Superparamagnetic Fe3O4/SiO2Nanocomposites:  Enabling the Tuning of Both the Iron Oxide Load and the Size of the Nanoparticles

(2008) Maria Stjerndahl et al.   LANGMUIR

Facile Preparation of Highly Monodisperse Small Silica Spheres (15 to >200 nm) Suitable for Colloidal Templating and Formation of Ordered Arrays

(2008) Kurtis D. Hartlen et al.   LANGMUIR

Highly Luminescent Lead Sulfide Nanocrystals in Organic Solvents and Water through Ligand Exchange with Poly(acrylic acid)

(2008) Wanjuan Lin et al.   LANGMUIR

Size-tunable near-infrared PbS nanoparticles synthesized from lead carboxylate and sulfur with oleylamine as stabilizer

(2008) Jincheng Liu et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY