Faculty profile
KAI HUANG
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Research
Latest papers
Breaking the Sensitization-Passivation Trade-Off in Dye-Sensitized Upconversion Nanoparticles through LiLuF4-Enabled Directional Energy Transfer.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
Facile Synthesis of Stable Yb3+-Doped Perovskite Nanocrystals in Mesoporous Silica for Near-Infrared Emission.
ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2026 · senior author
Engineering Nanoemulsions to Maximize NIR-II Fluorescence and Preserve Photothermal Performance of a Novel Boron Difluoride Formazanate Dye.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
Latest funding
- $25,000
Size-Tunable Lanthanide Quantum Nanocrystals for Enhanced, Multicolor Upconverted Superfluorescence
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $149,295
Second Near-Infrared Window Spectroscopy and Imaging System for Next Generation Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanocrystals
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $12,500
Developing Lanthanide-Doped Nanomaterials with Unconventional Luminescent Functions
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
24 publications.
Breaking the Sensitization-Passivation Trade-Off in Dye-Sensitized Upconversion Nanoparticles through LiLuF4-Enabled Directional Energy Transfer.
Wu J, Fung-A-Fat J, Ben W, Song L, Yu S, Xu W, Hildebrandt N, Huang K, Han G
Facile Synthesis of Stable Yb3+-Doped Perovskite Nanocrystals in Mesoporous Silica for Near-Infrared Emission.
Wang S, Chen Y, Wu J, Zhu Z, Bao R, Wang L, Cai H, Huang K
Engineering Nanoemulsions to Maximize NIR-II Fluorescence and Preserve Photothermal Performance of a Novel Boron Difluoride Formazanate Dye.
Kwon N, Buguis FL, Husby T, Chun S, Zhang D, Wu J, Rehl B, Ling B, Iqbal U, Washington M, Verner A, Huang K, Chen J, Gilroy JB, Zheng G
Persistent Luminescence Nanoparticle-Based Biosensors.
Chen Y, Wu J, Banik J, Gurov D, Wang Y, Bao R, Wang L, Huang K
A Modular Self-Driving Laboratory for Automated Synthesis of CsPb(Cl/Br/I)3 Perovskite Nanocrystals.
Chen Y, Rajabi-Kochi M, Huang G, Wu J, Wang S, Xu J, Moosavi SM, Huang K
Generative Synthesis of Highly Stable Perovskite Nanocrystals via Mesoporous Silica for Full-Spectrum White LED.
Wu J, Cai H, Shen P, Xu J, Chen Y, Banik J, Matsuura N, Huang K
Altered locomotion and anxiety after exposure to SiO2 nanoparticles in larval zebrafish.
Shen PY, Wu J, Pu G, Huang K, Lin Q
Nano-optogenetic CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy.
Nguyen NT, Liu S, Han G, Zhou Y, Huang K
Glucose oxidase-instructed biomineralization of calcium-based biomaterials for biomedical applications.
Fu LH, Qi C, Sun T, Huang K, Lin J, Huang P
Identification of Tetramers in Silver Films Grown on the Si(001) Surface at Room Temperature.
Huang K, Huxter WS, Singh CV, Nogami J
Size-Tunable Lanthanide Quantum Nanocrystals for Enhanced, Multicolor Upconverted Superfluorescence
Principal investigators: Huang, Kai
Keywords: Materials sciences; Physical sciences
Second Near-Infrared Window Spectroscopy and Imaging System for Next Generation Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanocrystals
Principal investigators: HUANG, KAI
Keywords: nanomaterials; nir-ii; inorganic nanoparticles; luminescence; heterostructures; lanthanide; nanocrystals; bioimaging; spectroscopy
Developing Lanthanide-Doped Nanomaterials with Unconventional Luminescent Functions
Principal investigators: HUANG, KAI
Keywords: nanomaterials; nanophotonics; inorganic nanoparticles; luminescence; heterostructures; lanthanide; upconversion luminescence; persistent luminescence; mechanoluminescence; near infrared
Developing Lanthanide-Doped Nanomaterials with Unconventional Luminescent Functions
Principal investigators: HUANG, KAI
Keywords: nanomaterials; nanophotonics; inorganic nanoparticles; luminescence; heterostructures; lanthanide; upconversion luminescence; persistent luminescence; mechanoluminescence; near infrared
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Thomas Kislinger and Mathieu Lupien: 5 shared papers
- Thomas Kislinger and Janet Rossant: 5 shared papers
- Thomas Kislinger and KAI HUANG: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Lupien and KAI HUANG: 1 shared paper
- Gang Zheng and KAI HUANG: 1 shared paper
- Janet Rossant and KAI HUANG: 1 shared paper
- Naomi Matsuura and KAI HUANG: 1 shared paper
- Qian Lin and KAI HUANG: 1 shared paper
- Jun Nogami and KAI HUANG: 1 shared paper
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Medical Biophysics
- Materials Science & Engineering/IBBME
- Cell and Systems Biology
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Thomas Kislinger
Department of Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Mathieu Lupien
Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Gang Zheng
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Chen Wang
Chemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Janet Rossant
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Naomi Matsuura
Materials Science & Engineering/IBBME
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Qian Lin
Cell and Systems Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Jun Nogami
Materials Science and Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2018
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