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44.  Soham Mukherjee*, Sarmad Naim Katea, Emille M. Rodrigues, Carlo U. Segre, Eva Hemmer, Peter Broqvist,         Hakan Rensmo* and Gunnar Westin*.
        Entrapped molecule-like Europium-oxide clusters in Zinc Oxide with nearly unaffected host structure.

       Small 2023, 19 (1), 2203331.
​       DOI: 10.1002/small.202203331
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43.  Emille M. Rodrigues, Nicholas D. Calvert, Justin C. Corriveau, Nan Liu, Adam J. Shuhendler and Eva                          Hemmer*.
      Phytoglycogen encapsulation of lanthanide-based nanoparticles as optical imaging platform with                          therapeutic potential.
        Small 2022, 18, 2107130.
​        DOI: 10.1002/smll.202107130
  • Invited contribution to Small Rising Stars Series
  • Included in the Advanced Materials Family Women in Materials Science virtual issue
42.  Emille M. Rodrigues and Eva Hemmer*.
       Trends in 
hyperspectral imaging: From environmental and health sensing to structure-property and nano-           bio interaction studies.
       Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2022, 414, 4269-4279.
​       DOI: 10.1007/s00216-022-03959-y
  • Invited contribution to the topical collection Analytical Methods and Applications in the Materials and Life Sciences
41.  Raphaël Chackal, Tyler Eng, Emille Martinazzo Rodrigues, Sara Matthews, Florence Pagé-Lariviére, Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Elvis Genbo Xu, Nathalie
       Tufenkji, Eva Hemmer and Jan A. Mennigen*.

       Metabolic consequences of developmental exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics, the flame retardant BDE-47 and their combination in zebrafish. 
       Front. Pharmacol. 2022, 13:822111.

       DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.822111
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40.  Marta Quintanilla*, Eva Hemmer*, Jose Marques-Hueso, Shadi Rohani, Giacomo Lucchini, Miao Wang,                     Reza Zamani, Vladimir Roddatis, Adolfo Speghini, Bryce S. Richards and Fiorenzo Vetrone*.
       Cubic versus hexagonal - Phase, size and morphology effects on the photoluminescence quantum yield               of NaGdF4:Er3+/Yb3+ upconverting nanoparticles. 
       Nanoscale 2022, 14, 1492-1504.

​       DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06319G
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39.  Riccardo Marin, Natalie C. Millan, Laura Kelly, Nan Liu, Emille M. Rodrigues, Muralee Murugesu* and Eva               Hemmer*.
       Luminescence thermometry using sprayed films of metal complexes. 
       J. Mater. Chem. C 2022, 10, 1767-1775.
​       DOI: 10.1039/D1TC05484H
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38.  Nan Liu, Jessica Holmes, Nicolas Bordenave and Eva Hemmer*.
       Microwave-assisted synthesis of NaMnF3 particles with tuneable morphologies.
       Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 11799-11802. 
       DOI: 10.1039/D1CCo4714K
  • Invited submission to the Special Issue 2021 Emerging Investigators
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37.  Nikita Panov, Dasheng Lu, Elisa Ortiz-Rivero, Emille Martinazzo Rodrigues, Patricia Haro-González, Daniel           Jaque* and Eva Hemmer*.
       Hyperspectral imaging and optical trapping: Complementary tools for assessing direction-dependent                 polarized emission from single upconverting LiYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microparticles.
       Adv. Opt. Mater. 2021, 9, 2100101.

       DOI: 10.1002/adom.202100101
36.  Vaibhav Singh, Priyanka Phalswal, Priyesh V. More, Eva Hemmer, Yogendra K. Mishra and Pawan Kumar Khanna*.
       Magic-sized CdSe nanoclusters: A review on synthesis, properties and white light potential. 
​       Mater. Adv. 2021, 2, 1204-1228. 
      DOI: 10.1039/D0MA00921K
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35.  Callum Jones, Nikita Panov, Artiom Skripka, Joseph Gibbons, Fabian Hesse, Jan-Willem Bos, Xiangfu                   Wang, Fiorenzo Vetrone, Guanying Chen, Eva Hemmer and Jose Marques Hueso*.
       Effect of light scattering on upconversion photoluminescence quantum yield in microscale-to-nanoscale           dispersion.
       Opt. Express 2020, 28 (15), 22803-22818.
​       DOI: 10.1364/OE.398353
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34.  Sarmad Naim Katea, Peter Broqvist, Jolla Kullgren, Eva Hemmer* and Gunnar Westin*.
       Fast, low-cost synthesis of ZnO:Eu nanosponges and the nature of Ln doping in ZnO.
       Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59 (11), 7584-7602.
​       DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00472
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33.  Nan Liu, Nicholas Gobeil, Parrish Evers, Isabel Gessner, Emille Martinazzo Rodrigues and Eva Hemmer*.
       Water dispersible ligand-free rare earth fluoride nanoparticles: water transfer versus NaFEF4-to-REF3                 phase transformation.
       Daton Trans. 2020, 49, 16204-16216.     
​       DOI: 10. 1039/D0DT01080D
  • Invited submission to the Special Issue New Talent: Americas
  • Featured in the ​HOT Articles Collection
​32.   Emille M. Rodrigues, Nelson Rutajoga, David Rioux, Jacob Yvon-Leroux and Eva Hemmer*.
        Hyperspectral imaging as a tool to study optical anisotropy in lanthanide-based molecular single crystals.

       J. Vis. Exp. 2020, 158, e60826.
       DOI: 10.3791/60826
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31.  Ilias Halimi, Emille Martinazzo Rodrigues, Steven L. Maurizio, Tina Sun, Manjot Grewal, Emma M. Boase,               Nan Liu, Riccardo Marin and Eva Hemmer*.
       Pick your precursor! Tailoring size and crystal phase of microwave-synthesized sub-10 nm upconverting           nanoparticles.
       J. Mater. Chem. C 2019, 7, 15364-15374.     
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DOI: 10.1039/C9TC04817K
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30.  Diogo A. Gálico, Riccardo Marin, Gabriel Brunet, Dylan Errulat, Eva Hemmer, Fernando Aparecido Sigoli,           Jani Moilanen and Muralee Murugesu*.
       Triplet state position and crystal field tuning in opto-magnetic lanthanide complexes: two sides pf the               same coin.
       Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25 (64), 14625-14637.
​       DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902837
29.  Gabriel Brunet, Riccardo Marin, Melissa-Jane Monks, Ute Resch-Genger, Diogo Alves Galico, Fernando             Aparecido Sigoli, Elizaveta A. Suturina, Eva Hemmer and Muralee Murugesu*.
       Exploring the dual functionality of an ytterbium complex for molecular optical thermometry and slow               magnetic relaxation.
       Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 6799-6808.
​       DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00343F
  • Featured in the ​International Open Access Week 2020 Collection
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28.  Dylan Errulat, Riccardo Marin, Diogo A. Galico, Katie L.M. Harriman, Amelie Pialat, Bulat Gabidullin,                    Fernando Iikawa, Odilon D.D. Couto Jr., Jani O. Moilanen, Eva Hemmer*, Fernando A. Sigoli* and Muralee           Murugesu*.
       A luminescent thermometer exhibiting slow relaxation of the magnetization: Toward self-monitored                   building blocks for next generation optomagnetic devices.
       ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 5 (7), 1187-1198.
​       DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00288
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27.  Nan Liu, Riccardo Marin, Yacine Mazouzi, Greg O. Cron, Adam Jason Shuhendler and Eva Hemmer*.
​       Cubic versus hexagonal - Effect of host crystallinity on the T1 shortening behaviour of NaGdF4                             nanoparticles.
       Nanoscale 2019, 11, 6794-6801.
​       DOI: 10.1039/C9NR00241C
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26.  Riccardo Marin, Fadi Oussta, Sarmad Katea, Sagar Prabhudev, Gianluigi Botton, Gunnar Westin* and 
       
Eva Hemmer*.
       Europium-doped ZnO nanosponges - Controlling optical properties and photocatalytic activity.
       J. Mater. Chem. C 2019, 7, 3909-3919.
       DOI: 10.1039/C9TC00215D
  • Featured in the themed collection of Journal of Materials Chemistry C top 5% most-read articles, January-March 2019.
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25.  Riccardo Marin, Ilias Halimi, Dylan Errulat, Yacine Mazouzi, Giacomo Lucchini, Adolfo Speghini, Muralee           Murugesu* and Eva Hemmer*.
       Harnessing the synergy between upconverting nanoparticles and lanthanide complexes in a multi-                 wavelength responsive hybrid system.
       ACS Photonics 2019, 6 (2), 434-445.
       DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01381
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24.  Nikita Panov, Riccardo Marin and Eva Hemmer*.
       Microwave-assisted solvothermal  synthesis of upconverting and  downshifting rare-earth-doped                     LiYF4 microparticles.
       Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57 (23), 14920-14929.
​       DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02697
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23.  Dylan Errulat, Bulat Gabidullin, Muralee Murugesu* and Eva Hemmer*.
       
Probing optical anisotropy and polymorph-dependent photoluminescence in [Ln2] complexes via                     hyperspectral imaging on single-crystals.
       Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24 (40), 10146-10155.
       DOI: 10.1002/chem.201801224
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22.  Shashi Bhuckory, Eva Hemmer, Yu-Tang Wu, Akram Yahia-Ammar, Fiorenzo Vetrone and Niko                               Hildebrandt.
       Core or shell? Er3+ FRET donors in upconversion nanoparticles. 
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 44, 5186-               5195.
       DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201700904
  • Highlighted as Very Important Paper and  chosen for the Front Cover.
    21.  Artiom Skripka, Riccardo Marin, Antonio Benayas, Patrizia Canton, Eva Hemmer and Fiorenzo Vetrone.
           
Covering the optical spectrum through collective rare-earth doping of NaGdF4 nanoparticles: 806 and 980 nm excitation routes. Phys. Chem.                      Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 11825-11834. DOI: 10.1039/C7CP01167A
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20.  Eva Hemmer*, Pablo Acosta-Mora, Jorge Méndez-Ramos and Stefan Fischer.
       Optical nanoprobes for biomedical applications: Shining a light on upconverting and near-infrared                       emitting nanoparticles for imaging, thermal  sensing, and photodynamic therapy.
​       J. Mater. Chem. B 2017, 5, 4365-4392.
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OI: 10.1039/C7TB00403F
  • Invited submission to the Special Issue Emerging Investigators 2017
    19.  Ting Cheng, Richard O'Rorke, Raphael Francois Ortiz, Tay Yee Yan, Eva Hemmer, Fiorenzo Vetrone, Robert S. Marks and Terry W. J. Steele.
           Self-assembled photoadditives in polyester films allow stop and go chemical release. Acta Biomater. 2017, 54, 186-200.                                                            D
OI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.03.021
    18.  Artiom Skripka, Antonio Benayas, Riccardo Marin, Patrizia Canton, Eva Hemmer and Fiorenzo Vetrone.
           
Double rare-earth nanothermometer in aqueous media: Opening the third optical transparency window to temperature sensing. Nanoscale 2017,              9, 3079−3085. DOI: 10.1039/C6NR08472A
  • From the themed collection: National Nanotechnology Day USA 2018  
    17.   Yue Huang, Eva Hemmer, Federico Rosei and Fiorenzo Vetrone.
           Multifunctional liposome nanocarriers combining upconverting nanoparticles and anticancer drugs. J. Phys. Chem. B 2016, 120 (22), 4992−5001.                   DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b02013
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16.  Eva Hemmer, Antonio Benayas, François Légaré and Fiorenzo Vetrone.
       Exploiting the biological windows: Current perspectives on fluorescent bioprobes emitting above                 1000 nm. ​
       Nanoscale Horiz. 2016, 1, 168-184. Selected for the Front Cover.
       
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00073D
      15.   Eva Hemmer, Christian Cavelius, Volker Huch and Sanjay Mathur.
              Templating influence of molecular precursors on Pr(OH)3 nanostructures.  Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54 (13), 6267–6280,
              DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00529 

      14.   Eva Hemmer, Marta Quintanilla, Francois Légaré and Fiorenzo Vetrone.
             Temperature-induced energy transfer in dye-conjugated upconverting nanoparticles: a new candidate for nanothermometry. Chem. Mater.                         2015, 27 (1), 235–244. DOI: 10.1021/cm503799f

      13.   Eva Hemmer, Fiorenzo Vetrone and Kohei Soga.
              Lanthanide-based nanostructures for optical bioimaging: Small particles with large promise. MRS Bulletin 2014, 39 (11), 960–964.
              DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2014.223

      12.   Eva Hemmer, Nallusamy Venkatachalam, Hiroshi Hyodo, Akito Hattori, Yoshie Ebina, Hidehiro Kishimoto and Kohei Soga.
              Upconverting and NIR emitting rare earth based nanostructures for NIR-bioimaging. Nanoscale 2013, 5, 11339–11361. DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02286B

      11.   Nallusamy Venkatachalam, Tomoyoshi Yamano, Eva Hemmer, Hiroshi Hyodo, Hidehiro Kishimoto and Kohei Soga.
             Er3+ doped Y2O3 nanophosphors for near-infrared fluorescence bioimaging applications. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 2013, 96 (9), 2759–2765.
             DOI: 10.1111/jace.12476

      10.  Eva Hemmer, Tomoyoshi Yamano, Hidehiro Kishimoto, Nallusamy Venkatachalam, Hiroshi Hyodo and Kohei Soga.
             Cytotoxic aspects of gadolinium oxide nanostructures for upconversion and NIR bioimaging. Acta Biomaterialia, 2013, 9 (1), 4734–4743.​                                  DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.08.045

       9.   Eva Hemmer, Nallusamy Venkatachalam, Hiroshi Hyodo and Kohei Soga.
             The role of pH in PEG-b-PAAc modification of gadolinium oxide nanostructures for biomedical applications. Adv. Mater. Sci. Eng. 2012, Article ID                  748098, 15 pp. doi:10.1155/2012/748098. DOI: 10.1155/2012/748098

       8.   Eva Hemmer, Izumi Kumakiri, Nicolas Lecerf, Rune Bredesen, Sven Barth, Jessica Altmayer, Nicole Donia, Christian Cavelius, Kohei Soga and                      Sanjay Mathur.
             Nanostructured ZrO2 membranes prepared by liquid-injection chemical vapor deposition. Micro. Meso. Mater. 2012, 163, 229–236.
             DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2012.06.057

       7.   Kohei Soga, Kimikazu Tokuzen, Keisuke Fukuda, Hiroshi Hyodo, Eva Hemmer, Nallusamy Venkatachalam and Hidehiro Kishimoto.
            Application of ceramic/polymer conjugate materials for near infrared biophotonics. J. Photopolym. Sci. Tech. 2012, 25 (1), 57–62.
            DOI: 10.2494/photopolymer.25.57

       6.   Eva Hemmer, Hiroyuki Takeshita, Tomoyoshi Yamano, Takanori Fujiki, Yvonne Kohl, Karin Löw, Nallusamy Venkatachalam, Hiroshi Hyodo,                              Hidehiro Kishimoto and Kohei Soga.
             In vitro and in vivo investigations of upconversion and NIR emitting Gd2O3:Er3+,Yb3+ nanostructures for biomedical applications. J. Mater. Sci.:                     Mater. Med. 2012, 23, 2399–2412. DOI: 10.​1007/​s10856-012-4671-x

​       5.   Nallusamy Venkatachalam, Eva Hemmer, Tomoyoshi Yamano, Hiroshi Hyodo, Hidehiro Kishimoto and Kohei Soga.
             Synthesis and toxicity assay of ceramic nanophosphors for bioimaging with near infrared excitation. Prog. Cryst. Growth Charact. Mater. 2012, 58,                121–134. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcrysgrow.2012.02.002

       4.   Eva Hemmer, Volker Huch, Matthias Adlung, Claudia Wickleder and Sanjay Mathur.
             Homo- and heterometallic terbium alkoxides - synthesis, characterization and conversion to luminescent oxide nanostructures. Eur. J. Inorg.                       Chem. 2011, 13, 2148–2157. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201000963

       3.   Eva Hemmer, Kohei Soga, Tomoya Konishi, Tomoaki Watanabe, Takaaki Taniguchi and Sanjay Mathur.
            Influence of the host phase on the vibrational spectra of Eu3+ doped zirconia prepared by hydrothermal processing. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 2010, 93                 (11), 3873–3879.​ DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.03981.x

       2.   Eva Hemmer, Yvonne Kohl, Victoria Colquhoun, Hagen Thielecke, Kohei Soga and Sanjay Mathur.
​            Probing cytotoxicity of gadolinium hydroxide nanostructures. J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114 (12), 4358–4365. DOI: 10.1021/jp911607h

       1.   Sanjay Mathur, Michael Veith, Thomas Ruegamer, Eva Hemmer and Hao Shen.
​            Chemical vapour deposition of MgAl2O4 thin films using different Mg-Al alkoxides: role of precursor chemistry. Chem. Mater. 2004, 16 (7), 1304–                   1312. DOI: 10.1021/cm0311675

Other Articles

       3.   Upconversion photoluminescence and materials design concepts for those with a sweet tooth.
             A contribution by Eva Hemmer to the Ceramics and Glasses blog by Rishabh Kundu, May 2021.
             Read it here. 
       2.  Qianqian Su, Lining Sun, Eva Hemmer and Ho Seong Jang.
            Editorial: Women in lanthanide-based luminescence research: From basic research to applications. Front. Chem. 2021, 9, editorial article.
 
            DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.667672
​       1.   Daniel Stadler, Eva Hemmer, Babak Anasori, Zachary D. Hood and Sanjay Mathur.
​            Career progression through professional engagement: The impact of MRS student-led activities. MRS Bulletin 2020, 45 (4), 306-307. 
            
DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2020.99

Book Chapters

       2.   Eva Hemmer and Fiorenzo Vetrone.
​             Chapter 11: Nanothermometry using upconverting nanoparticles. in Upconverting Nanomaterials: Perspectives, synthesis, and applications,
             Edited by Claudia Altavilla, CRC Press, October 2016, 319-357 (ISBN 9781498707749).

       1.   Eva Hemmer, Yvonne Kohl, Sanjay Mathur, Hagen Thielecke and Kohei Soga.
​             Solvothermal synthesis of gadolinium hydroxide and oxide powders and their potential for biomedical applications. in Nanostructured Materials
             and Systems
, Edited by Sanjay Mathur, Hao Shen and Mrityunjay Singh, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2010, 214, 27–37.
             
DOI: 10.1002/9780470909812.ch3

Books (ed.)

      1.   Near infrared-emitting nanoparticles for biomedical applications.
           Edited by Antonio Benayas, Eva Hemmer, Guosong Hong and Daniel Jaque, 
Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. 
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32036-2
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