UPCON 2026 (Brno, Czech Republic)

5th Conference on Properties, Design, and Applications of Upconversion Nanomaterials

INVITED SPEAKERS
Bruce Cohen (Molecular Foundry, USA)

Teaching Old Nanoparticles New Tricks

 

Kai Huang (University of Toronto, Canada)

Leveraging High Dopant Concentration for Enhanced Upconversion Nanoparticles

 

Satu Lahtinen (University of Turku, Finland)

Minimizing the nonspecific binding of upconverting nanoparticle bioconjugates to reach ultrasensitive bioaffinity assays

 

Changhwan Lee (KAIST MSE, South Korea)

Super-Resolution Microscopy with Photon Avalanching Nanoparticles

 

Sonia Melle (Complutense University, Spain)

Excitation matters for UCNP lifetime: drawback, challenge or opportunity?

 

Andrea Pickel (University of Rochester, USA)

Probing (Electro)chemical Processes with Operando Luminescence Thermometry

 

Fernando Sigoli (State University of Campinas, Brazil)

Upconversion interparticle energy transfer and CPL on lanthanide-doped NaREF4 nanoparticles

 

Lining Sun (Shanghai University, China)

Lanthanide Upconversion Luminescence: From Molecule-Nano-Micro Scale

 

Fan Wang (Beihang University, China)

Upconversion nanophotonics empowered ultrasensitive force sensing

 

Yinghui Wang (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China)

Lanthanide-doped Upconversion Nanomaterials: From Design to Applications of Theranostics

 

Fan Zhang (Fudan University, China)

Second near-infrared window fluorescent probes for in vivo dynamic multiplexed bioimaging

 

Lewis MacKenzie (Strathclyde University, Scotland)

Balancing ease of production and bio-reporter functionality in water dispersible upconversion nanoparticles

 

Antonín Hlaváček (Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)

Photon Upconversion and Computer Vision in Advancing Digital Assays and Absolute Quantification

 

INVITED POSTERS
Eva Hemmer (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Lighting the Way: Exploring the Potential of Lanthanide-Based Materials from Imaging to Sensing

 

Yung Doug Suh (UNIST, South Korea)

Single Particle Nanospectroscopy & Spectroscopic Nanoimaging Shows You More of the UCNP & ANP

 

Artur Bednarkiewicz (Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Poland)

To label, or not to label? A novel subdiffraction imaging!

 

Niko Hildebrandt (McMaster University, Canada)

Upconversion-FRET – Where we are and where we’ll be?