Upconverting Lanthanide Nanoparticles for Biosensing Applications

• Grant number: 15/18733-0
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): April 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): May 20, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry
• Principal researcher: Sidney José Lima Ribeiro
• Grantee: Chanchal Hazra
• Home Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/23422-9 - Multicolour emissions through Bi-directional energy transfer in Nd3+-sensitized core/shell/shell upconverting nanoparticles for bio imaging applications, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Luminescent rare-earth upconversion nanophosphors (UCNPs) are rapidly emerging as an important class of nanoparticles with a huge variety of potential applications including biological imaging and medicine, dyes for solar cells, security inks among others [1-6]. These nanoparticles are capable of converting near infra-red (NIR) light into visible light using hand-held laser pointers and offer much promise over conventional light sources in imaging/sensing since biological tissue and materials are much more transparent to radiation in this optical window [5,7]. At the interface of chemistry, biology and physics, this project will involve fabrication of a new class of functionalized nanoparticles that can selectively recognize specific macromolecules through the modulation of the Upconverted fluorescence outputs. UCNP will be used together with nanostructured fibroin films and specific molecular recognition species as biosensors workable devices (based on materials chemistry) for fast, tunable and specific detection of biomolecules through luminescence resonance energy transfer (LRET).

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CORREALES, YORK E. SERGE; HAZRA, CHANCHAL; ULLAH, SAJJAD; LIMA, LAIS R.; RIBEIRO, SIDNEY J. L. Precisely tailored shell thickness and Ln(3+) content to produce multicolor emission from Nd3+-sensitized Gd3+-based core/shell/shell UCNPs through bi-directional energy transfer. NANOSCALE ADVANCES, v. 1, n. 5, p. 1936-1947, MAY 1 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.

ULLAH, S.; FERREIRA-NETO, E. P.; HAZRA, C.; PARVEEN, R.; ROJAS-MANTILLA, H. D.; CALEGARO, M. L.; SERGE-CORREALES, Y. E.; RODRIGUES-FILHO, U. P.; RIBEIRO, S. J. L. Broad spectrum photocatalytic system based on BiVO4 and NaYbF4:Tm3+ upconversion particles for environmental remediation under UV-vis-NIR illumination. APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL, v. 243, p. 121-135, APR 2019. Web of Science Citations: 12.

SIMOES, MATEUS BATISTA; ULLAH, SAJJAD; HAZRA, CHANCHAL; MAN, MICHEL WONG CHI; LIMA RIBEIRO, SIDNEY JOSE; RODRIGUES-FILHO, UBIRAJARA PEREIRA. Eco-friendly polydimethylsiloxane-based self-supporting film containing europium-polyoxometalate: A flexible luminescent material for white light generation. Journal of Luminescence, v. 201, p. 384-389, SEP 2018. Web of Science Citations: 1.

HAZRA, CHANCHAL; ULLAH, SAJJAD; SERGE CORREALES, YORK E.; CAETANO, LAIS G.; RIBEIRO, SIDNEY J. L. Enhanced NIR-I emission from water-dispersible NIR-II dye-sensitized core/active shell upconverting nanoparticles. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C, v. 6, n. 17, p. 4777-4785, MAY 7 2018. Web of Science Citations: 7.

HAZRA, CHANCHAL; ULLAH, SAJJAD; CAETANO, LAIS G.; RIBEIRO, SIDNEY J. L. Eu(III)-coordination polymer sub-micron fibers: material for selective and sensitive detection of Cu2+ ions via competition between photoinduced electron transfer and energy transfer. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C, v. 6, n. 1, p. 153-161, JAN 7 2018. Web of Science Citations: 3.

ULLAH, SAJJAD; HAZRA, CHANCHAL; FERREIRA-NETO, ELIAS P.; SILVA, TARCIO C.; RODRIGUES-FILHO, UBIRAJARA P.; RIBEIRO, SIDNEY J. L. Microwave-assisted synthesis of NaYF4: Yb3+/Tm3+ upconversion particles with tailored morphology and phase for the design of UV/NIR- active NaYF4: Yb3+/Tm3+@TiO2 core@shell photocatalysts. CrystEngComm, v. 19, n. 25, p. 3465-3475, JUL 7 2017. Web of Science Citations: 11.