Mn 4+-activated phosphors are a new class of non-rare earth phosphors and are alternative
to commercial Eu 2+-activated nitride/oxynitride phosphors with growing interest in various …

The development of apparatus to maintain materials at high hydrostatic pressure has been
an active area of research for many years. From the pioneering work of Bridgman, during the …

S100/calgranulin polypeptides are present at sites of inflammation, likely released by
inflammatory cells targeted to such loci by a range of environmental cues. We report here …

As the uses of Al2O3 and other ceramics expand into new and more demanding
applications, it is increasingly important to understand their electronic structure and its …

The ruby luminescence method is widely used for pressure measurement in the diamond
anvil cell and other optically transparent pressure cells. With this application in mind, we …

The coefficients of the piezospectroscopic tensor for a 0.05 wt% ruby are evaluated by direct
measurement of the frequency shift for uniaxial compression along the three principal …

The residual stresses created in polycrystalline aluminum oxide as a result of its constrained
anisotropic thermal contraction are measured with the technique of piezospectroscopy using …

The structure, electronic properties and relative stability of seven thermodynamically stable,
meta-stable and high-pressure alumina polymorphs as well as the structure and relative …

Upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) are an emerging platform for mechanical force
sensing at the nanometer scale. An outstanding challenge in realizing nanometer-scale …

Piezochromic luminescent materials with multi-color switching have recently attracted much
attention owing to their appealing applications in the field of advanced photonics, such as …