The invention discloses an up-conversion
luminescent material as well as a preparation method and the application thereof. The material is a nanoscale hexagonal disk-shaped
fluoride, and has the following chemical general: NaLu1-x-y-zRxYbyMzF4, wherein R is a
rare earth element Y or any composition of the Y, Gd and La; M is one of or any composition of the
rare earth elements Ho, Er and Tm; x, y and z meet the following conditions that x is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.5, y is greater than or equal to 0.1 and less than or equal to 0.5, and z is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.1; the material is prepared by a solvothermal method, which takes
octadecene as a
solvent and takes
oleic acid as a complexing agent, and can be used on the aspects of storage, transmission, optical display,
infrared detection, fluorescent falsification-preventing,
fluorescence probe,
biosensor, and bio-imaging; the material is stable in performance and regular in morphology; the particle size is obviously smaller than that of beta-NaLuF4 synthesized under the same condition; the
luminous intensity is higher than that of the up-conversion luminescent materials of beta-NaYF4 and beta-NaLuF4 which is synthesized under the same condition; the up-conversion
luminescent material has the advantages of small size, high luminous efficiency and the like.