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Improving luminescence efficiency is of vital importance for applications of rare-earth-doped upconversion materials. Herein, we present highly efficient upconversion nanocrystal, which is brighter than the state-of-the-art Er/Yb co-doped core-shell material, through Er heavily doping and 1530 nm excitation. Moreover, upconversion characteristics and mechanisms of Er heavily doped core nanocrystals and their core-shell counterparts are investigated carefully.
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Anal Bioanal Chem
September 2025
GuangDong Engineering Technology Research Center of Antibody Drug and Immunoassay, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Illicit drug abuse poses a significant global threat to public health and social security, highlighting the urgent need for rapid, sensitive, and versatile detection technologies. To address the limitations of traditional chromatographic techniques-such as high costs and slow response times-and the drawbacks of conventional immunochromatographic sensors (ICS), including low sensitivity and non-intuitive signal outputs, a fluorescence-quenching ICS (FQICS) was developed. This sensor leverages fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between aggregation-induced emission fluorescent microspheres (AIEFMs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs).
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September 2025
Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
The electrolyte-electrode interface serves as the foundation for a myriad of chemical and physical processes. In battery chemistry, the formation of a well-known solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the reversible operations of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, characterizing the precise chemical composition of the low crystallinity and highly sensitive SEI presents a formidable challenge.
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September 2025
School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Active metasurfaces incorporating electro-optic materials enable high-speed free-space optical modulators that show great promise for a wide range of applications, including optical communication, sensing and computing. However, the limited light-matter interaction lengths in metasurfaces typically require high driving voltages exceeding tens of volts to achieve satisfactory modulation. Here we present low-voltage, high-speed free-space optical modulators based on silicon-organic-hybrid metasurfaces with dimerized-grating-based nanostructures.
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September 2025
Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin, China.
Photon upconversion through high harmonic generation, multiphoton absorption, Auger recombination and phonon scattering performs a vital role in energy conversion and renormalization. Considering the reduced dielectric screening and enhanced Coulomb interactions, semiconductor monolayers provide a promising platform to explore photon upconversion at room temperature. Additionally, two-photon upconversion was recently demonstrated as an emerging technique to probe the excitonic dark states due to the extraordinary selection rule compared with conventional excitation.
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September 2025
Expression génétique microbienne, UMR8261 CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris 75005, France.
Targeted gene editing can be achieved using CRISPR-Cas9-assisted recombineering. However, high-efficiency editing requires careful optimization for each locus to be modified, which can be tedious and time-consuming. In this work, we developed a simple, fast and cheap method: Engineered Assembly of SYnthetic operons for targeted editing (EASY-edit) in Escherichia coli.
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