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Jean-Claude G. Bünzli is a researcher affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their work primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a focus on Materials Chemistry as the core subfield. Additional areas of research include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, alongside Biomedical Engineering.

The main research topics covered in their publications reflect a concentration on Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials, and Crystallization and Solubility Studies. The scientist's contributions also encompass X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Nanoplatforms for Cancer Theranostics, and Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • A hybrid erbium(III)-bacteriochlorin near-infrared probe for multiplexed biomedical imaging, 2021, published in Nature Materials
  • Quantum yield and brightness, 2020, published in Journal of Luminescence
  • Learning from lanthanide complexes: The development of dye-lanthanide nanoparticles and their biomedical applications, 2020, published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Lanthanide-tetrapyrrole complexes: synthesis, redox chemistry, photophysical properties, and photonic applications, 2021, published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • High-brightness transition metal-sensitized lanthanide near-infrared luminescent nanoparticles, 2024, published in Nature Photonics

Frequent collaborators include Ka-Leung Wong, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Aurélien R. Willauer, Iskander Douair, and Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani.

Publications by Jean-Claude G. Bünzli appear often in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of Luminescence, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Angewandte Chemie.

Best Publications

  • Taking advantage of luminescent lanthanide ions

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Claude Piguet

  • Lanthanide luminescence for functional materials and bio-sciences

    Svetlana V. Eliseeva;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Lanthanide Luminescence for Biomedical Analyses and Imaging

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • On the design of highly luminescent lanthanide complexes

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Benefiting from the Unique Properties of Lanthanide Ions

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Lanthanide-containing molecular and supramolecular polymetallic functional assemblies.

    Jean-Claude G. BüNZLI;Claude Piguet

  • Intriguing aspects of lanthanide luminescence

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Svetlana V. Eliseeva

  • Lanthanide NIR luminescence for telecommunications, bioanalyses and solar energy conversion

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Svetlana V. Eliseeva;Svetlana V. Eliseeva

  • New Opportunities for Lanthanide Luminescence

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Steve Comby;Anne-Sophie Chauvin;Caroline D.B. Vandevyver

  • Basics of Lanthanide Photophysics

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Svetlana V. Eliseeva

  • Rare earths: jewels for functional materials of the future

    Svetlana V. Eliseeva;Svetlana V. Eliseeva;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Stable lanthanide luminescence agents highly emissive in aqueous solution: multidentate 2-hydroxyisophthalamide complexes of Sm(3+), Eu(3+), Tb(3+), Dy(3+).

    Stéphane Petoud;Seth M Cohen;Jean-Claude G Bünzli;Kenneth N Raymond

  • Mono- and polymetallic lanthanide-containing functional assemblies: a field between tradition and novelty

    Claude Piguet;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Lanthanide Podates with Predetermined Structural and Photophysical Properties: Strongly Luminescent Self-Assembled Heterodinuclear d−f Complexes with a Segmental Ligand Containing Heterocyclic Imines and Carboxamide Binding Units

    Claude Piguet;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Gérald Hugues Bernardinelli;Gerard Hopfgartner

  • Lanthanide light for biology and medical diagnosis

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Review: Lanthanide coordination chemistry: from old concepts to coordination polymers

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Lanthanide luminescence efficiency in eight- and nine-coordinate complexes: Role of the radiative lifetime

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Anne-Sophie Chauvin;Hwan Kyu Kim;Emmanuel Deiters

  • Near-infrared-triggered photon upconversion tuning in all-inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite quantum dots.

    Wei Zheng;Ping Huang;Zhongliang Gong;Datao Tu

  • Europium and terbium tris(dipicolinates) as secondary standards for quantum yield determination

    Anne‐Sophie Chauvin;Frédéric Gumy;Daniel Imbert;Jean‐Claude G. Bünzli

  • Extending lifetimes of lanthanide-based near-infrared emitters (Nd, Yb) in the millisecond range through Cr(III) sensitization in discrete bimetallic edifices.

    Daniel Imbert;Martine Cantuel;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Gérald Bernardinelli

  • Intrinsic quantum yields and radiative lifetimes of lanthanide tris(dipicolinates)

    Annina Aebischer;Frédéric Gumy;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths

    Karl A. Gschneidner;LeRoy Eyring;Gerry H. Lander;J.-C. G. Bünzli

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude Piguet
Claude Piguet University of Geneva
Rosario Scopelliti
Rosario Scopelliti École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gérard Hopfgartner
Gérard Hopfgartner University of Geneva
Gérald Bernardinelli
Gérald Bernardinelli University of Geneva
Stéphane Petoud
Stéphane Petoud Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hwan Kyu Kim
Hwan Kyu Kim Korea University
Daniel Guillon
Daniel Guillon University of Strasbourg
Carlos Platas-Iglesias
Carlos Platas-Iglesias University of A Coruña
Éva Tóth
Éva Tóth University of Orléans
Ka-Leung Wong
Ka-Leung Wong Hong Kong Baptist University

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