{"id":164892,"date":"2023-05-31T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/examining-a-nanocrystal-that-shines-on-and-off-indefinitely"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:23:00","slug":"examining-a-nanocrystal-that-shines-on-and-off-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/examining-a-nanocrystal-that-shines-on-and-off-indefinitely","title":{"rendered":"Examining a nanocrystal that shines on and off indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/examining-a-nanocrystal-that-shines-on-and-off-indefinitely2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles made waves\u2014or rather, an avalanche\u2014when Changwan Lee, then a Ph.D. student in Jim Schuck\u2019s lab at Columbia Engineering, set off an extreme light-producing chain reaction from ultrasmall crystals developed at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab. Those same crystals are back again with a blink that can now be deliberately and indefinitely controlled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve found the first fully photostable, fully photoswitchable nanoparticle\u2014a holy grail of nanoprobe design,\u201d said Schuck, associate professor of mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>This unique material was synthesized in the laboratories of Emory Chan and Bruce Cohen at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as well as in a national lab in South Korea. The research team also included Yung Doug Suh\u2019s lab at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles made waves\u2014or rather, an avalanche\u2014when Changwan Lee, then a Ph.D. student in Jim Schuck\u2019s lab at Columbia Engineering, set off an extreme light-producing chain reaction from ultrasmall crystals developed at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab. Those same crystals are back again with a blink that can now be deliberately and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}