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Photon Upconversion Nanomaterials pp 255–284Cite as

Upconversion Nanoparticles for Biosensing

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The last few decades have witnessed the emergence and rapid development of nanoscience and nanotechnology including nanochemistry, nanophysics, nanomedicine, and nanobiomaterials, which allows for the continuous exploration of facile, inexpensive, sensitive, and specific biological analytical techniques by employing nanobioprobes. Recently, upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) demonstrated their great potential in many fields of biological science including cells and tissue labeling for bio-imaging, bio-detection, therapy, and multiplexed analysis. In this chapter, we mainly summarize recent advanced UCNPs-based nanosensors with different energy acceptors, including organic dyes, gold nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterials, and MnO2 nanosheets for various analytes (ions, gas molecules, biomolecules, etc.).

Lei Chen and Fan Zhang contributed together to this chapter.

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Zhang, F. (2015). Upconversion Nanoparticles for Biosensing. In: Photon Upconversion Nanomaterials. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45597-5_8

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