Research Interests

Near Infrared II in-vivo bio-imaging 

Selected Publications (full list via Google Scholar)

1. Zhong YT#; Ma ZR#; Wang FF#; Wang X; Yang YJ; Liu YL; Zhao X; Li JC; Du HT; Zhang MX; Cui QH; Zhu SJ; Sun QC; Wan H; Tian Y; Liu Q; Wang WZ; Garcia KC; Dai HJ*; In vivo molecular imaging for immunotherapy using ultra-bright near-infrared-IIb rare-earth nanoparticles, Nat Biotechnol, 2019, 37 (11): 1322-1331.

2. Zhong YT; Ma ZR; Zhu SJ; Yue JY; Zhang MX; Antaris AL; Yuan J; Cui R; Wan H; Zhou Y; Wang WZ; Huang N F; Luo J; Hu ZY*; Dai HJ*; Boosting the down-shifting luminescence of rare-earth nanocrystals for biological imaging beyond 1500 nm, Nat Commun, 2017, 8 (1): 737.

3. Zhong YT#; Rostami I#; Wang ZH; Dai HJ*; Hu ZY*; Energy Migration Engineering of Bright Rare-Earth Upconversion Nanoparticles for Excitation by Light-Emitting Diodes, Adv Mater, 2015, 27 (41): 6418-6422.

4. Zhong YT; Tian G; Gu ZJ*; Yang YJ; Gu L; Zhao YL*; Ma Y*; Yao JN*; Elimination of Photon Quenching by a Transition Layer to Fabricate a Quenching-Shield Sandwich Structure for 800 nm Excited Upconversion Luminescence of Nd3+-Sensitized Nanoparticles, Adv Mater, 2014, 26 (18): 2831-2837.

5. Zhong YT; Dai HJ*; A mini-review on rare-earth down-conversion nanoparticles for NIR-II imaging of biological systems, Nano Res, 2020, 13 (5): 1281-1294.