Main description:

This book is a detailed, state-of-the-art account of the applications and uses of luminescence thermometry. It covers a wide range of fields, including biomedicine, biology, and catalysis. The book also explains the luminescence thermometric parameters used to sense temperature via luminescence with different materials, analyzing the different strategies used to improve thermal sensitivity and temperature resolution.

The readers of this book are any researcher interested in the field, because of its topical coverage, as well as bachelor and graduate students, as an introduction to this novel field. The book ends with a general critical analysis of the results presented, where the editors discuss about the challenges and opportunities in the development of these highly sensitive new class of thermometers.

Contents:

Introduction to luminescence thermometry.- New strategies to improve thermal sensitivity and temperature resolution in lanthanide-doped luminescent thermometers.- Multiparametric luminescence thermometry.- Primary luminescence thermometers.- Luminescence nanothermometry below the diffraction limit.- Luminescence thermometry in highly doped lanthanide nanoparticles.- Luminescence thermometry in MOFs.- Persistent luminescence nanothermometers.- Luminescence thermometry for biomedical applications.- Luminescence thermometry in the biological windows for theranostic.- Contactless luminescence nanothermometry in the brain.- Luminescence lifetime thermometry for accurate measurements in vivo.- Luminescence thermometry and optical trapping.- Applications of luminescence thermometry in catalysis.- Critical analysis of the recent advances, applications and uses on luminescence thermometry.