ABSTRACT
Lanthanide-doped upconverting nanostructures are promising materials in the generation of imaging agents for modern biomedical applications, in particular in optical diagnostics (Prodi et al. 2015). Upconversion (UC) is a
CONTENTS
3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 37 3.2 Upconverting Nanomaterials: Importance of the Composition ........... 39 3.3Synthetic Strategies ......................................................................................40
