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?