Upconversion Nanodevice-Assisted Healthy Molecular Photocorrection

Kamaljit Kaur, Pulkit Bindra, Sanjit Mondal, Wei Peng Li, Sandeep Sharma, Bandana Kumari Sahu, Boddu S. Naidu, Chen Sheng Yeh, Ujjal K. Gautam, Vijayakumar Shanmugam

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Abstract

Mushrooms are rich in ergosterol, a precursor of ergocalciferol, which is a type of vitamin D2. The conversion of ergosterol to ergocalciferol takes place in the presence of UV radiation by the cleavage of the "B-ring"in the ergosterol. As the UV radiation cannot penetrate deep into the tissue, only minimal increase occurs in sunlight. In this study, upconversion nanoparticles with the property to convert deep-penetrating near-infrared radiation to UV radiation have been cast into a disk to use sunlight and emit UV radiation for vitamin D conversion. An engineered upconversion nanoparticle (UCNP) disk with maximum particles and limited clusters demonstrates ∼2.5 times enhanced vitamin D2 conversion.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)291-298
Number of pages8
JournalACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Jan 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • UCNP device
  • mushroom
  • nanoagri
  • nutrition
  • vitamin D

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomaterials
  • Biomedical Engineering

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