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Optical probes have led to numerous breakthroughs in applications like optical memory, nanopatterning, and bioimaging, but existing options have limited lifespans and will eventually photobleach. New work demonstrates a promising, longer-lasting alternative: ultra-photostable avalanching nanoparticles that can turn on and off indefinitely in response to near-infrared light from simple lasers.
In 2021, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles made waves or rather, an avalanche when Changwan Lee, then a PhD student in Jim Schuck’s lab at Columbia Engineering, set off an extreme light-producing chain reaction from ultrasmall crystals developed at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab.
A research team, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has made a significant breakthrough in uncovering the potential of ultra-photostable avalanching nanoparticles (ANP).