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Pulsed laser reshaping and fragmentation of upconversion nanoparticles - from hexagonal prisms to 1D nanorods through "Medusa" -like structures

Show Author's Information Laszlo Sajti1,§,  Denis N. Karimov2,§,  Vasilina V. Rocheva2,  Nataliya A. Arkharova2,  Kirill V. Khaydukov2,  Oleg I. Lebedev3,  Alexey E. Voloshin2,  Alla N. Generalova2,4,  Boris N. Chichkov5,  Evgeny V. Khaydukov2,6( )
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Wiener Neustadt, 2700, Austria
Federal Scientific Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics" Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119333, Russia
Laboratoire CRISMAT, UMR6508, CNRS-ENSIACEN, Universite Caen, Caen, 14050, France
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia
Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, 30167, Germany
Center of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Molecular Medicine Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

§ Laszlo Sajti and Denis N. Karimov contributed equally to this work.

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One dimensional (1D) nanostructures attract considerable attention, enabling a broad application owing to their unique properties. However, the precise mechanism of 1D morphology attainment remains a matter of debate. In this study, ultrafast picosecond (ps) laser-induced treatment on upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) is offered as a tool for 1D-nanostructures formation. Fragmentation, reshaping through recrystallization process and bioadaptation of initially hydrophobic (β-Na1.5Y1.5F6: Yb3+, Tm3+/β-Na1.5Y1.5F6) core/shell nanoparticles by means of one-step laser treatment in water are demonstrated. "True" 1D nanostructures through "Medusa" -like structures can be obtained, maintaining anti-Stokes luminescence functionalities. A matter of the one-dimensional UCNPs based on direction of energy migration processes is debated. The proposed laser treatment approach is suitable for fast UCNP surface modification and nano-to-nano transformation, that open unique opportunities to expand UCNP applications in industry and biomedicine.


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Pulsed laser reshaping and fragmentation of upconversion nanoparticles - from hexagonal prisms to 1D nanorods through "Medusa" -like structures

Show Author's information Laszlo Sajti1,§, Denis N. Karimov2,§, Vasilina V. Rocheva2, Nataliya A. Arkharova2, Kirill V. Khaydukov2, Oleg I. Lebedev3, Alexey E. Voloshin2, Alla N. Generalova2,4, Boris N. Chichkov5, Evgeny V. Khaydukov2,6( )
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Wiener Neustadt, 2700, Austria
Federal Scientific Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics" Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119333, Russia
Laboratoire CRISMAT, UMR6508, CNRS-ENSIACEN, Universite Caen, Caen, 14050, France
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia
Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, 30167, Germany
Center of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Molecular Medicine Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

§ Laszlo Sajti and Denis N. Karimov contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

One dimensional (1D) nanostructures attract considerable attention, enabling a broad application owing to their unique properties. However, the precise mechanism of 1D morphology attainment remains a matter of debate. In this study, ultrafast picosecond (ps) laser-induced treatment on upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) is offered as a tool for 1D-nanostructures formation. Fragmentation, reshaping through recrystallization process and bioadaptation of initially hydrophobic (β-Na1.5Y1.5F6: Yb3+, Tm3+/β-Na1.5Y1.5F6) core/shell nanoparticles by means of one-step laser treatment in water are demonstrated. "True" 1D nanostructures through "Medusa" -like structures can be obtained, maintaining anti-Stokes luminescence functionalities. A matter of the one-dimensional UCNPs based on direction of energy migration processes is debated. The proposed laser treatment approach is suitable for fast UCNP surface modification and nano-to-nano transformation, that open unique opportunities to expand UCNP applications in industry and biomedicine.

Keywords: upconversion nanoparticles, fluoride crystals, upconversion nanorods, one-dimensional (1D) structures, laser-induced reshaping

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Received: 21 July 2020
Revised: 01 October 2020
Accepted: 08 October 2020
Published: 09 November 2020
Issue date: April 2021

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge Prof. Vladislav Ya. Panchenko, PhD Sergey Y. Alyatkin, PhD Vladimir A. Semchishen, PhD Vladimir I. Yusupov and PhD Andrey V. Nechaev for helpful and valuable discussions.

This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the State assignment FSRC «Crystallography and Photonics» RAS in part of «UCNP synthesis», by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research according to the research projects № 18-29-20064 in the part of «PL analysis» and № 20-32-70174 in the part of «complex structures analysis», by the Russian Science Foundation project № 18-79-10198 in the part of «UCNP analysis». BC acknowledges financial support from Lower Saxony through "Quanten und Nanometrologie" project (QUANOMET) and DFG Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453).

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