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Engineering the Design of Brightly-Emitting Luminescent Nanostructured Photonic Composite Systems

Mei Chee Tan A E , Dominik J. Naczynski B , Prabhas V. Moghe B C and Richard E. Riman D
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A Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 20 Dover Drive, Singapore 138682.

B Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 599 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

C Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, 599 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

D Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, 607 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

E Corresponding author. Email: meichee.tan@sutd.edu.sg




Mei Chee Tan is currently an assistant professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, and earned her master's and doctorate degrees with the Singapore-MIT Alliance at the National University of Singapore. She then continued to build on her research experience as a post-doctoral researcher at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has extensive experience in synthesis, modification, and characterization of optical nanomaterials with controlled sizes and morphologies for biomedical applications and energy-efficient illuminators. Her future research activities will focus on the study and engineering of tailored interfaces.


Dominik J. Naczynski graduated from Cornell University in 2006 with a B.S. degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering and a minor in biomedical engineering. In 2012, he received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Drs Prabhas Moghe and Charles Roth at Rutgers University. His thesis concentrated on the development of biologically interactive nanoparticles for infrared disease imaging and therapy. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Medicine at Stanford University under the guidance of Dr Lei Xing. His research interests include designing multimodal imaging agents for investigating the underlying mechanisms of cancer development, progression, and therapeutic response.


Prabhas Moghe is distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. Dr Moghe's research interests are in regenerative medicine and nanomedicine. An International Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), and Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Dr Moghe has authored more than 75 publications, ~250 presentations and proceedings, and supervised more than 25 Ph.D. students to date. Dr Moghe directs an NSF IGERT program on stem cells, and leads NIH projects on polymeric therapeutics, near-infrared nanocomposite imaging probes, and resource core on cell profiling of polymeric biomaterials.


Richard Riman is distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research focuses on ceramic manufacturing methods that provide sustainable solutions to technological and environmental problems, and spans photonic, biomedical, electronic, and structural materials. Professor Riman founded Solidia Technologies, a company providing green construction materials for buildings and infrastructure. He holds a B.S. degree in ceramic engineering from Rutgers and a Ph.D. from MIT in materials science and engineering. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including awards from NIH, NSF, ALCOA, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, and the American Ceramic Society.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 66(9) 1008-1020 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH13221
Submitted: 30 April 2013  Accepted: 25 July 2013   Published: 27 August 2013

Abstract

Rare-earth doped infrared emitting composites have extensive applications in integrated optical devices such as fibre amplifiers and waveguides for telecommunications, remote sensing, and optoelectronics. In addition, recent advancements in infrared optical imaging systems have expanded the biomedical applications for infrared-emitting composites in diagnosis and imaging of living tissue systems both in vitro and in vivo. Composite systems combine the advantages of polymers (light weight, flexibility, good impact resistance, improved biomedical compatibility, and excellent processability) and inorganic phosphor host materials (low phonon energy, intense emissions, chemical durability, and high thermal stability). This paper provides a brief review of our research progress in the design and synthesis of luminescent photonic nanocomposite systems comprised of rare-earth doped particulates dispersed in a continuous polymeric matrix. The design of brightly-emitting rare-earth doped materials and the influence of host and dopant chemistries on the emission properties are discussed. Methods used to assess and measure the phosphors’ performance are also evaluated in this work. This paper will also examine the solvothermal synthesis method used to control the physical and chemical characteristics of the rare-earth doped particles, and how these characteristics impact the infrared optical properties. Also presented here are recent advances reported with luminescent nanocomposite systems fabricated for optical waveguides and biomedical imaging.


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