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Photophysical Applications of Photofunctional Rare-Earth Hybrid Materials

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Photofunctional Rare Earth Hybrid Materials

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This chapter mainly focuses on recent research progress in the photophysical applications of photofunctional rare-earth hybrid materials, which include the luminescent solar energy concentrators (or optical amplifiers), the luminescent devices or barcoding, and the luminescent sensors for cations, anions, molecules or species, and physical properties such as temperature or pH value. Since the research on the luminescent sensors is very active, the emphasis is put on this topic. As the hybrids based on rare-earth functionalized metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have the characteristics of molecules, their application in the practical fields are most extensively studied and will be discussed in detail. Herein it mainly focuses on the work of our group in the recent years.

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Yan, B. (2017). Photophysical Applications of Photofunctional Rare-Earth Hybrid Materials. In: Photofunctional Rare Earth Hybrid Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 251. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2957-8_8

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