Lanthanide doped nanoheaters with reliable and absolute temperature feedback

The development of selective and controlled photo-thermal therapies requires luminescent nanoparticles capable of simultaneous heating and contactless thermal sensing. Until now, thermal therapies have suffered from a lack of control over the absolute temperature of the treated tissue because the na...

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Autores: López Peña, Gabriel, Hamraoui, Khouloud, Horchan Naifer, Karima, Gerke, Christoph, Ortgies, Dirk H., Martín Rodríguez, Emma, Chen, Guanying, Jaque García, Daniel, Rubio Retama, Benito Jorge
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/71387
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71387
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles
Photothermal therapy
Luminescence nanothermometry
Temperature
Lifetime
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3312 Tecnología de Materiales
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Sumario:The development of selective and controlled photo-thermal therapies requires luminescent nanoparticles capable of simultaneous heating and contactless thermal sensing. Until now, thermal therapies have suffered from a lack of control over the absolute temperature of the treated tissue because the nanothermometers used for thermal feedback, based on a spectral analysis of emitted radiation, were affected by the inhomogeneous extinction of the tissues. This work shows how this deficiency can be overcome by using core-shell-shell nanostructures doped with lanthanide ions (Nd3+ and Yb3+). Thermal reading was achieved from the analysis of the Yb3+ luminescence lifetime whereas simultaneous heating was achieved thanks to the non-radiative deexcitations of Nd3+ ions. Simple proof-of-concept experiments show the great potential of these lanthanide-doped nanostructures for the development of in vivo photo-thermal treatments with absolute and reliable thermal feedback.