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Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

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Chemistry
Canada
2025

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Materials Science

D-Index
85
Citations
23378
World Ranking
2183
National Ranking
36

Chemistry

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84
Citations
23148
World Ranking
2843
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Frank C. J. M. van Veggel is a researcher affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their work predominantly spans the fields of Materials Science and Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Biomaterials.

Their research topics include:

  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials

Van Veggel has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • High-field magnetic resonance imaging: Challenges, advantages, and opportunities for novel contrast agents, 2022, Chemical Physics Reviews
  • Colloidally Stable Monodisperse Fe Nanoparticles as T2 Contrast Agents for High-Field Clinical and Preclinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2021, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Isolating and enhancing single-photon emitters for 1550 nm quantum light sources using double nanohole optical tweezers, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Photon-counting computed tomography of lanthanide contrast agents with a high-flux 330-μm-pitch cadmium zinc telluride detector in a table-top system, 2020, Journal of Medical Imaging
  • Thermometric Analysis of Nanoaperture-Trapped Erbium-Containing Nanocrystals, 2024, ACS Photonics

Frequent coauthors in Van Veggel's work include:

  • Adriaan L. Frencken
  • Barbara Błasiak
  • Bogusław Tomanek
  • Armita Dash
  • Reuven Gordon

The venues where Van Veggel often publishes reflect their interdisciplinary focus, with multiple contributions to:

  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Materials
  • Book of Abstracts
  • Chemical Physics Reviews
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

In recognition of their academic contributions, Frank C. J. M. van Veggel was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 within the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Fluorescence quenching of dye molecules near gold nanoparticles: radiative and nonradiative effects.

    E. Dulkeith;A. C. Morteani;T. Niedereichholz;T. A. Klar

  • Absolute quantum yield measurements of colloidal NaYF4: Er3+, Yb3+ upconverting nanoparticles.

    John-Christopher Boyer;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Near-infrared Emission of Redispersible Er3+, Nd3+, and Ho3+ Doped LaF3 Nanoparticles

    Jan W. Stouwdam;Frank C.J.M. van Veggel

  • Bright white light through up-conversion of a single NIR source from sol-gel-derived thin film made with Ln3+-doped LaF3 nanoparticles.

    Sri Sivakumar;Frank C J M van Veggel;Mati Raudsepp

  • Surface Modification of Upconverting NaYF4 Nanoparticles with PEG−Phosphate Ligands for NIR (800 nm) Biolabeling within the Biological Window

    John-Christopher Boyer;Marie-Pascale Manseau;Jill I. Murray;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Size-Tunable, Ultrasmall NaGdF4 Nanoparticles: Insights into Their T1 MRI Contrast Enhancement

    Noah J. J. Johnson;Wendy Oakden;Greg J. Stanisz;R. Scott Prosser

  • Rare-earth doped polymers for planar optical amplifiers

    L.H. Slooff;A. van Blaaderen;A. Polman;G.A. Hebbink

  • A Systematic Study of the Photophysical Processes in Polydentate Triphenylene-Functionalized Eu3+, Tb3+, Nd3+, Yb3+, and Er3+ Complexes

    Stephen I. Klink;Lennart Grave;David N. Reinhoudt;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles with excellent luminescent properties in organic media

    Jan W. Stouwdam;Gerald A. Hebbink;Jurriaan Huskens;Frank C. J. M. Van Veggel

  • Self-focusing by Ostwald ripening: a strategy for layer-by-layer epitaxial growth on upconverting nanocrystals.

    Noah J. J. Johnson;Andreas Korinek;Cunhai Dong;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Subtissue Thermal Sensing Based on Neodymium-Doped LaF3 Nanoparticles

    Uéslen Rocha;Carlos Jacinto da Silva;Wagner Ferreira Silva;Ilde Guedes

  • Silica-coated Ln3+-Doped LaF3 nanoparticles as robust down- and upconverting biolabels.

    Sri Sivakumar;Peter R. Diamente;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Metallomacrocycles: Supramolecular Chemistry with Hard and Soft Metal Cations in Action

    Frank C.J.M. van Veggel;Willem Verboom;David N. Reinhoudt

  • Surface Eu3+ ions are different than “bulk” Eu3+ ions in crystalline doped LaF3 nanoparticles

    V. Sudarsan;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel;Rodney A. Herring;Mati Raudsepp

  • Broadband sensitizers for erbium-doped planar optical amplifiers: review

    Albert Polman;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Improvement in the Luminescence Properties and Processability of LaF3/Ln and LaPO4/Ln Nanoparticles by Surface Modification

    Jan W. Stouwdam;Frank C.J.M. van Veggel

  • Transition Metal Complexes as Photosensitizers for Near-Infrared Lanthanide Luminescence

    Stephen I. Klink;Henk Keizer;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Near-Infrared (NIR) to Red and Green Up-Conversion Emission from Silica Sol−Gel Thin Films Made with La0.45Yb0.50Er0.05F3 Nanoparticles, Hetero-Looping-Enhanced Energy Transfer (Hetero-LEET): A New Up-Conversion Process

    Sri Sivakumar;Frank C. J. M. Van Veggel;P. Stanley May

  • Hard Proof of the NaYF4/NaGdF4 Nanocrystal Core/Shell Structure

    Keith A. Abel;John-Christopher Boyer;Frank C. J. M. van Veggel

  • Water-Soluble GdF3 and GdF3/LaF3 NanoparticlesPhysical Characterization and NMR Relaxation Properties

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  • Metallomacrocycles: Supramolecular Chemistry with Hard and Soft Metal Cations in Action

    F. C. J. M. Van Veggel;W. Verboom;D. N. Reinhoudt

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Reinhoudt
David N. Reinhoudt University of Twente
Willem Verboom
Willem Verboom University of Twente
G. Julius Vancso
G. Julius Vancso University of Twente
Jurriaan Huskens
Jurriaan Huskens University of Twente
Holger Schönherr
Holger Schönherr University of Siegen
Reuven Gordon
Reuven Gordon University of Victoria
Wilhelm T. S. Huck
Wilhelm T. S. Huck Radboud University
Martin Möller
Martin Möller RWTH Aachen University
Stephen Hughes
Stephen Hughes National Cancer Institute
Jan Christoph Goldschmidt
Jan Christoph Goldschmidt Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems

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