Full Description
Upconversion Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the chemistry, properties, characterization, and emerging applications of lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), focusing on upconversion mechanisms, fluorescent properties, and biomedical applications. The emerging applications of UCNPs include cancer diagnostics and therapy, biosensing and bioassays, bioimaging, drug and gene delivery, cellular optogenetics, and the detection of small biomolecules and ions. The biocompatibility, biodegradability, bio-distribution, toxicity and regulatory considerations of upconversion are fully considered.
This book offers a unique reference resource for researchers, bringing together a global authorship to cover the fundamentals, state-of-the-art, current challenges, and future perspectives of upconversion nanoparticles.
Contents
1. Upconversion Nanoparticles: Current Trends and Future Perspectives
2. Upconversion Mechanisms and Strategies for Architecting Highly Efficient Upconversion Nanoparticles
3. Synthesis Methods of Upconversion Nanoparticles
4. Colloidal Stability and Fluorescent Characteristics of Upconversion Nanoparticles
5. Physiochemical Characterizations of Upconversion Nanoparticles
6. Surface Engineering of Upconversion Nanoparticles via Functionalization and Bioconjugation
7. Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy
8. Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Bioassays
9. Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Bioimaging
10. Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Drug and Gene Delivery
11. Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles in Cellular Optogenetics
12. Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Treatment of Amyloid Diseases
13. Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Detection of Small Biomolecules and Ions
14. Nanocomposites, Nanohybrids and Heterostructures of Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles with Other Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications
15. Biocompatibility, Biodegradability, Bio-distribution, Toxicity and Regulatory Challenges of Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles in Biomedical Field
16. The Future Potential of Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles in Biomedical and Clinical Settings for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications