Impurity doping is a promising method to impart new properties to various materials. Due to
their unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, rare-earth ions have been …

The spectrally narrow, long-lived luminescence of lanthanide ions makes optical
nanomaterials based on these elements uniquely attractive from both a fundamental and …

Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a unique class of optical materials and are extensively
used as building blocks for optoelectronic device architectures due to their outstanding …

There is little doubt that 'rock phosphate'reserves are decreasing, with phosphorus (P) peak
to be reached in the coming decades. Hence, removal and recovery of phosphorus (P) from …

Rare earth based nanostructures constitute a type of functional materials widely used and
studied in the recent literature. The purpose of this review is to provide a general and …

The use of labelling or staining agents has greatly assisted the study of complex biological
interactions in the field of biology. In particular, fluorescent labelling of biomolecules has …

Inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs) have initiated an extensive upsurge in biological
application research. Just as quantum dots are regarded as a vigorous reinforcement of the …

Phosphate (Pi) sequestration by a lanthanum (La) exchanged clay mineral (La-Bentonite),
which is extensively used in chemical lake restoration, was investigated on the molecular …

Reaction in water between rare earth ions (Ln= Y, La− Tm, except Pm) and the sodium salt
of terephthalic acid leads to a family of lanthanide-based coordination polymers of general …

Sol–gel processing is well-known to be a powerful technique for designing materials for
optical applications. Here, some recent applications of functionalized sol–gel coatings in …