Thermometry at the nanoscale
* Corresponding authors
a
Department of Physics, CICECO, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810–193 Aveiro, Portugal
E-mail:
carlos.brites@ua.pt, patriciapereira@ua.pt, nunojoao@ua.pt, vamaral@ua.pt, lcarlos@ua.pt
Fax: +351 234 378197
Tel: +351 234 370946
b
Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Facultad de Ciencias and Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, CSIC–Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
E-mail:
amillan@unizar.es, palacio@unizar.es
Abstract
Non-invasive precise thermometers working at the nanoscale with high spatial resolution, where the conventional methods are ineffective, have emerged over the last couple of years as a very active field of research. This has been strongly stimulated by the numerous challenging requests arising from nanotechnology and biomedicine. This critical review offers a general overview of recent examples of luminescent and non-luminescent thermometers working at nanometric scale. Luminescent thermometers encompass organic
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