«The use of
these upconverting nanocrystals is quite clever and highly enabling,» says Jennifer Lewis, a professor of biologically inspired engineering at Harvard University who was not involved in the research.
The new particles are about 200 microns long and include several stripes of different colored nanocrystals, known as «rare earth
upconverting nanocrystals.»
Not exact matches
The researchers report in Nano Letters that by combining inorganic semiconductor
nanocrystals with organic molecules, they have succeeded in «
upconverting» photons in the visible and near - infrared regions of the solar spectrum.