Abstract
Near-infrared to visible upconversion NaLnF4 (Ln = Pr to Lu and Y) nanocrystals hold great promise for use in biological labeling and imaging due to their intrinsic characteristics such as high chemical stability, nonblinking and sharp bandwidth luminescence, large Stokes shift, as well as appropriate and abundant energy states necessary for efficient energy transfer to achieve near-infrared to visible upconversion emission. However, there are still significant hurdles in the control of size, shape, and phase of NaLnF4 nanocrystals due to limited understanding of their growth behavior and growth mechanism. Here we describe an approach to facilely control the shape and phase of upconversion NaLnF4 nanocrystals. Besides the optimization of synthetic conditions such as organic surfactant and reaction temperature, we have developed a program, in which a correlation between the ionic radius of lanthanide ions and the shape/phase of NaLnF4 nanocrystals is established, to precisely control the shape and phase of...
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