LANTHANIDE BIOLOGICAL PROBE ON A ZRO_2 NANOPARTICLE HOST

摘要

Lanthanide ions are well known for their luminescent properties and have been utilized for decades in television sets and fluorescent lights. More recently, scientists have become interested in utilizing the strong, long-lasting luminescence to create biological probes. When a lanthanide probe is tuned to bind to biological targets of interest, the luminescence can be used to track the location of the probe at low concentrations due to its strong emission properties. Xueyuan Chen and co-workers have synthesized small ZRO_2 nanoparticles doped with either europium or terbium ions.