“…Additionally, the hydro(solvo)-thermal method is more suitable to prepare highly crystalline uorides nanomaterials under relatively mild condition. 28,[42][43][44] Compared with the traditional high temperature solid state reaction route, the hydrothermal synthesis of UC uorides has the advantage of controlled morphology and size, but it loses the high emission efficiency due to the high concentration defects and OH À . In the past decade, many approaches have been reported to increase the UC emission efficiency of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles, for example, using noble metal nanocrystal plasma, 45 photonic crystal effect, 46 surface coating through core-shell structure 47 and ion-exchange modi-ed hydrothermal method.…”