Solid-state functional luminescent materials arouse an enormous scientific interest due to their diverse applications in lighting, display devices, photonics, optical communication, low energy scintillation, optical storage, light conversion, or photovoltaics. Among all types of solid luminophors, the emissive coordination polymers, especially those based on luminescent trivalent lanthanide ion...

The surface of CdSe nanoparticles was functionalized with 11-hydroxyundecanoic acid (11-HUDA) during in situ preparation to afford stable and highly luminescent quantum dot (QD) solutions. The reactivity of the hydroxyl groups of 11-HUDA was then utilized in carbamate bond forming reactions with diisocyanate-bearing molecules that serve as linkers in the fabrication of the multilayered CdSe qua...

Polyoxometalates (POMs), a type of giant transition metal oxide clusters on the nanoscale, are emerging as useful materials with unique catalytic, electrooptical, and biological properties. Lanthanide-containing POMs elements show excellent photoluminescent properties with narrow emission bands, large Stokes shift, long lifetime, and tunable emission, i.e., their long emission timescale (microt...

A new perylene bisimide dye has been synthesized which self-assembles into columnar nanoaggregates and liquid crystalline mesophases with striking photoluminescent properties.

Abstract: Two new transition metal complexes, containing the acidic ligand 5-chlorosalicylic acid (H2L5), and 1,10-phenanthroline（phen） and 1,3-Di(4-pyridyl)propane (bpp) as secondary ligands are reported. They are formulated as {[Pb(HL5)2(phen)(H2O)]·H2O}n(1), [Zn2(HL5)4(bpp)2]n(2). All the complexes are characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffractions. Compoud 1 crystallizes in the triclini...

In this investigation, Eu3+ doped YVO4 /YBO3 phosphors were synthesized individually by conventional solid state method at 1100 °C under atmosphere condition. Meanwhile, different amounts of LiClwere used as the flux compound to modify the morphology of the phosphor particles and also final luminescence properties. It was concluded that even small amounts of fluxes play a vital role in the grow...

Seven novel bismuth(III)-halide phases, Bi2Cl6(terpy)2·0.5(H2O) (1), Bi2Cl4(terpy)2(k2-TC)2(2) (TC = 2-thiophene monocarboxylate), BiCl(terpy)(k2-TC)2 (3A-Cl), BiBr(terpy)(k2-TC)2 (3A-Br), (3B-Cl), [BiCl(terpy)(k2-TC)2][Bi(terpy)(k2-TC)3]·0.55(TCA) (4), [BiBr3(terpy)(MeOH)] (5), and [BiBr2(terpy)(k2-TC)][BiBr1.16(terpy)(k2-TC)1.84] (6), were prepared under mild synthetic conditions from methano...

Studies show that solid copper(I) cyanide has interesting photoluminescent properties. Recent work has shown that the UV spectrum of CuCN may be attributed to Laporte-allowed excitations from occupied to unoccupied π-type molecular orbitals (MOs). The emission spectrum is attributed to the relaxation from an excited state triplet with a bent structure due to distortions that remove degeneracies...

this study aimed to evaluate enamel roughness after adhesive removal using different burs and an er:yag laser.the buccal surfaces of forty human premolars were sealed by two layers of nail varnish, except for a circular area of 3 mm in diameter on the middle third. the enamel surfaces were initially subjected to profilometry analysis and four parameters of surface irregularity (ra, rq, rt and r...