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Speciation of Lanthanide Metal Ion Dopants in Microcrystalline All-Inorganic Halide Perovskite CsPbCl3

David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Daniel Prochowicz, Amita Ummadisingu, Albert Hofstetter

Lanthanides are versatile modulators of optoelectronic properties owing to their narrow optical emission spectra across the visible and near-infrared range. Their use in metal halide perovskites (MHPs) has recently gained prominence, although their fate in ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Exploring Photoredox-Catalyzed (Re)functionalizations with Core-Modified Benziodoxolones

Jérôme Waser, Franck Le Vaillant, Stephanie Grace Elizabeth Amos

Alkynes and nitriles are valuable building blocks in organic synthesis and also have multiple applications in chemical biology and materials science. Due to the high availability of tertiary alcohols, developing methods for their conversion into alkynes an ...

2022

Photochemical Alkynylations with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Stephanie Grace Elizabeth Amos

Over the past twenty years, photochemical transformations have gained in importance in organic chemistry. Indeed, the development of photocatalysts has allowed the use of visible light as an energy source for chemical transformations. More specifically, ph ...

EPFL2022

Gate Control of Spin-Layer-Locking FETs and Application to Monolayer LuIO

Nicola Marzari, Antimo Marrazzo, Thibault Daniel Pierre Sohier

A recent 2D spinFET concept proposes to switch electrostatically between two separate sublayers with strong and opposite intrinsic Rashba effects, exploiting the spin-layer-locking mechanism in centrosymmetric materials with local dipole fields. Here, we p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Structure and small molecule activation reactivity of a metallasilsesquioxane of divalent ytterbium

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Aurélien René Willauer, Anna Maria Dabrowska

The first metallasilsesquioxane of a divalent lanthanide, Yb{Cy7Si7O11(OSiMe3)}(THF),1, was synthesized and structurally characterized. The Cy7Si7O11(OSiMe3)(2-)ligands in1bind two Yb(ii) ions in a bridging mode. The dinuclear complex effects the two- ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Colorimetry of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes

Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Julien Alexandre Andres

Europium, terbium, dysprosium, and samarium are the main trivalent lanthanide ions emitting in the visible spectrum. In this work, the potential of these ions for colorimetric applications and colour reproduction was studied. The conversion of spectral dat ...

2020

Taking lanthanides out of isolation: tuning the optical properties of metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Kevin Sivula, Kyriakos Stylianou, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Gloria Capano, Andrzej Gladysiak, Maria Fumanal Quintana, Stavroula Kampouri, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Samantha Lynn Anderson, Davide Tiana

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are increasingly used in applications that rely on the optical and electronic properties of these materials. These applications require a fundamental understanding on how the structure of these materials, and in particular t ...

2020

CS2 Reductive Coupling to Acetylenedithiolate by a Dinuclear Ytterbium(II) Complex

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Julie Renée Michelle Andrez, Davide Toniolo

The activation of CS2 is of interest in a broad range of fields and more particularly in the context of creating new C‐C bonds. The reaction of the dinuclear ytterbium(II) complex [Yb2L4], 1, (L = (OtBu)3SiO‐) with carbon disulphide led to the isolation of ...

2019

Kondo lattice excitation observed using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the YbM5 edge

Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Marco Guarise

We present a study of the resonant inelastic scattering response of YbInCu4 excited at the tender YbM5 x-ray edge. In the high-temperature, paramagnetic phase, we observe a multiplet structure which can be understood at an ionic level. Upon cooling through ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Post-Synthesis Amine Borane Functionalization of a Metal-Organic Framework and Its Unusual Chemical Hydrogen Release Phenomenon

Andreas Züttel

A novel strategy for post-synthesis amine borane functionalization of MOFs under gas-solid phase transformation, utilizing gaseous diborane, is reported. The covalently confined amine borane derivative decorated on the framework backbone is stable when pre ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

All-fibered chalcogenide based continuous-wave parametric amplification in the mid-infrared

Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Sida Xing

We demonstrate parametric amplification around 2 μm in a dispersion engineered tapered microstructured chalcogenide fiber. Almost 5 dB of signal amplification was achieved by 125 mW coupled power from a thulium-doped fiber pump laser. ...

OSA Publishing2017

Upconversion fluorescence imaging of HeLa cells using ROS generating SiO2-coated lanthanide-doped NaYF4 nanoconstructs

Andrzej Sienkiewicz

Inorganic nanomaterials able to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) are promising components for modern medical applications. Activated by near-infrared light, up-converting beta-NaYF4 doped with Er3+ - Yb3+ and Tm3+- Yb3+ pair ions nanoparticles (UCNPs ...

2017

Highly Active and Stable Iridium Pyrochlores for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Nicola Marzari

Proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) is a promising technology for electricity-to-fuel conversion which allows for direct production of hydrogen from water. One of the key problems limiting widespread implementation of PEMWE into energy syst ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Generation of high-brightness spectrally flat supercontinuum in 1900-2450 nm range inside a small core thulium-doped fiber amplifier

Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Sida Xing, Thibault Emmanuel North

We demonstrate the generation of high-brightness supercontinuum inside thuliumdoped fiber amplifier in 1950-2450nm spectral range with 1.7W output power and 32% slope efficiency, seeded by tunable 2000nm mode-locked laser and assisted by 3H4-3H5/3F4-3H6 th ...

OSA Publishing2016

Influence of Symmetry on the Luminescence and Radiative Lifetime of Nine-Coordinate Europium Complexes

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Svetlana Eliseeva

Homoleptic mononuclear nine-coordinate lanthanum(III) and europium(III) tris-complexes [Ln(N^N^O)3]·nH2O with two tridentate N-benzyl-benzimidazole pyridine-2-carboxylates exhibit a rare C3-symmetry of the lanthanide coordination polyhedron in the solid st ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Tuning the Reactivity of Isocyano Group: Synthesis of Imidazoles and Imidazoliums from Propargylamines and Isonitriles in the Presence of Multiple Catalysts

Jieping Zhu, Qian Wang, Shuo Tong

The reaction of propargyl amines with tert-butylisonitrile in the presence of a catalytic amount of both Yb(OTf)3 and AgOTf afforded imidazoles, whereas the same reaction with primary and secondary alkylisonitriles, as well as arylisonitriles, in the prese ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Composition and temperature dependence of the Yb valence in YbMn6Ge6-xSnx studied by RIXS

Marco Grioni

We investigate the composition and temperature (10-450 K) dependence of the Yb valence in YbMn6Ge6-xSnx (x = 0.0, 3.8, 4.2, 4.4, and 5.5) using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). The observed change in the Yb valence with composition (from v simil ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Strong antiferromagnetic exchange between manganese phthalocyanine and ferromagnetic europium oxide

Stefano Rusponi, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Fabio Donati, Christian Wäckerlin, Aparajita Singha, Romana Baltic

We report on the antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between a submonolayer of Mn(II)-phthalocyanine molecules and a ferromagnetic Eu(II)-oxide thin film. The exchange energy is larger by nearly two orders of magnitude compared to previous studies involvin ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Perspectives of Active Atomic Clock Based on Modelocked Semiconductor Laser with Rubidium Vapor Cell Saturable Absorber

Xi Zeng

Atomic clocks are a vital technology in the day to day operation of modern society. While passive Rb and Cs microwave atomic clocks find widespread practical applications today, active atomic clocks have the potential to surpass them in frequency stability ...

EPFL2015

Solvent Exchange and Electron-Spin Relaxation on Homoleptic Acetonitrile Complexes of Trivalent Lanthanides

Lothar Helm

Homoleptic acetonitrile complexes [Nd(CH3CN)(9)]Al(OC(CF3)(3))(4), [Dy(CH3CN)(9)]Al(OC(CF3)(3))(4), and [Tm(CH3CN)(8)]Al(OC(CF3)(3))(4) have been studied in anhydrous acetonitrile by 14N and 1H NMR relaxation. Solvent-exchange rate constants ...

American Chemical Society2015