BookRuifu Yang, editor.
Summary: This book presents an overview of up-concerting phosphor (UCP), including UCP preparation, development of the rapid detection strips and UCP industrialization. It also discusses the wide clinical applications of this technology, such as in food poisoning, infectious diseases, drug-abuse and disaster rescue, where rapid point-of-care testing is often critical. Conventional testing methods are mainly based on gold immunochromatography, which relies heavily on results being read with the naked eye. However, up-converting phosphor technology (UPT) employs UCP particles as labels for rapid target detection. Unlike other conventional fluorescence techniques, UCP is excited by infrared light and emitted visible light. This anti-stokes phenomenon provides this special label with significant advantages, including zero background detection, high resistance to environmental influences (e.g. pH, salts, sample contamination), high sensitivity and quantitative detection. Systematically summarizing UCP technology and its wide applications, this book is a valuable resource for researchers and technicians in the field.
Contents:
Upconversion luminescent materials: properties and luminescence mechanisms
Synthesis and preparation of upconverting phosphor particles
Modification and Functionalization of Up-Converting Phosphor Particles
Upconvertion nanoparticles-based point-of-care testing technology
Up-converting phosphor technology-based biosensing technology
Industrialization of up-converting phosphor diagnostic products
The application of UPT-POCT in emergency medicine
The application of UPT-POCT in internal medicine
The application of UPT-POCT in combat-related traumatic infection
Application of UPT-POCT for medical relief in disasters
Application of UPT-POCT for detection of foodborne pathogens
Applications of UCNPs in the detection of food safety related mycotoxins
The application of UPT-POCT in public health emergencies
Applications of UPT-POCT in Import and Export Quarantine
Application of UPT-POCT in detection of drugs
Applications of UPT-POCT in anti-bioterrorism and biosecurity
Applications of UCNPs in bio-imaging and treatment.