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Upconversion Nanoparticles for Other Applications

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Besides various bio-applications such as biomedicine, bioassay, photon dynamic treatment, and drug delivery, UCNPs have also been used in other applications. They can be explored as a NIR absorber in solar cells because they can absorb NIR light which has been wasted in traditional solar cells. They can be used as sensitizer in photocatalysis due to the energy transfer from UCNPs to the quantum dots or organic dyes. They are considered as next generation anti-counterfeiting materials due to their unique optical properties. In this chapter, the recent progress on other applications (besides bio-application) based on UCNPs is reviewed.

Rui Wang and Fan Zhang contributed together to this chapter.

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Zhang, F. (2015). Upconversion Nanoparticles for Other Applications. In: Photon Upconversion Nanomaterials. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45597-5_11

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