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Lanthanide Photonics: Shaping the Nanoworld

Lanthanide luminescent materials have gradually become indispensable in a wealth of applications, including phosphors for lighting and displays, security inks and tags, lasers, optical fibers, night vision, photocatalysis, bioprobes, nanoscopy, and light-a ...

ELSEVIER2019

Lanthanide mechanoluminescence

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Mechanoluminescence (ML) is the emission of light consecutive to a mechanical force or stress imposed to a crystalline material. Many inorganic and organic compounds present this phenomenon that is known for over 400 years. Lanthanide and uranyl salts were ...

Elsevier Science Bv2018

A supramolecular lanthanide separation approach based on multivalent cooperative enhancement of metal ion selectivity

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Nature Research2018

Near-infrared-triggered photon upconversion tuning in all-inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite quantum dots

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Ping Huang

Nature Publishing Group2018

BIOIMAGING Time to multiplex

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Nature Publishing Group2018

Impact of Lanthanide Nanomaterials on Photonic Devices and Smart Applications

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Zhenyu Liu

Half a century after its initial emergence, lanthanide photonics is facing a profound remodeling induced by the upsurge of nanomaterials. Lanthanide-doped nanomaterials hold promise for bioapplications and photonic devices because they ally the unmatched a ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Rising Stars in Science and Technology: Luminescent Lanthanide Materials

Jean-Claude Bünzli

This essay draws attention to lanthanide luminescence by putting into perspective the sensitization process of f-f emission, the design of highly luminescent lanthanide-based compounds, and upconversion nanoparticles. A brief overview of the recent advance ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

A Smart Europium-Ruthenium Complex as Anticancer Prodrug: Controllable Drug Release and Real-Time Monitoring under Different Light Excitations

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Chen Xie

A unique, dual-function, photoactivatable anticancer prodrug, RuEuL, has been tailored that features a ruthenium(II) complex linked to a cyclen-europium chelate via a pi-conjugated bridge. Under irradiation at 488 nm, the dark-inactive prodrug undergoes ph ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Guidelines for Measurement of Luminescence Spectra and Quantum Yields of Inorganic Compounds, Metal Complexes, and Materials

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Guidelines for measuring luminescence of inorganic compounds, metal complexes and organometallic compounds are described. Common textbooks and manuals describing these measurements are usually aimed for physical and/or organic chemists and are not always s ...

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry2016

Lanthanide light for biology and medical diagnosis

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Optical imaging emerges as a vital component of the various techniques needed to meet the stringent requirements of modern bioanalysis and bioimaging. Lanthanide luminescent bioprobes (LLBs) have greatly contributed to this field during the past 35 years b ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

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

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti, 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

On the design of highly luminescent lanthanide complexes

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Presently, phosphors and luminescent materials for lighting, telecommunications, displays, security inks and marking, as well as for probes in biosciences represent one third of the total value of the lanthanides used worldwide. If optical glasses and lase ...

Elsevier2015

Stereocontrolled Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting of Luminescent Europium Tetrahedral Cages

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Coordination-directed self-assembly has become a well-established technique for the construction of functional supramolecular structures. In contrast to the most often exploited transition metals, trivalent lanthanides Ln(III) have been less utilized in th ...

American Chemical Society2015

A Eu(III) Tetrakis(b-diketonate) Dimeric Complex: Photophysical Properties, Structural Elucidation by Sparkle/AM1 Calculations, and Doping into PMMA Films and Nanowires

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti

Reaction of Ln(III) with a tetrakis(diketone) ligand H4L [1,1?-(4,4?-(2,2-bis((4-(4,4,4-trifluoro-3-oxobutanoyl) phenoxy)methyl)propane-1,3-diyl)bis(oxy)bis(4,1-phenylene))bis(4,4,4-trifluorobutane-1,3-dione)] gives new podates which, according to mass spe ...

American Chemical Society2014

Lanthanide coordination chemistry: from old concepts to coordination polymers

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Because of their remarkable and unmatched optical and magnetic properties, the lanthanides are under the limelight when it comes to high technology. These elements are used in strategic applications such as optical glasses and lasers, telecommunications, l ...

Taylor & Francis2014

Tridentate Benzimidazole-Pyridine-Tetrazolates as Sensitizers of Europium Luminescence

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti, Svetlana Eliseeva

We report on new anionic tridentate benzimidazole-pyridine-tetrazolate ligands that form neutral 3:1 complexes with trivalent lanthanides. The ligands are UV-absorbing chromophores that sensitize the red luminescence of europium with energy-transfer effici ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Lighting up cells with lanthanide self-assembled helicates

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Lanthanide bioprobes and bioconjugates are ideal luminescent stains in view of their low propensity to photobleaching, sharp emission lines and long excited state lifetimes permitting time-resolved detection for enhanced sensitivity. We show here how the i ...

Royal Society, The2013

Lanthanide(III) dendrimer complexes based on diphenylquinoxaline derivatives for photonic amplification

Jean-Claude Bünzli

A series of novel lanthanide(III) complexes (Ln=Gd, Er, Yb) based on dendritic diphenylquinoxaline (DPQ) ligands was designed and synthesized with the aim of enhancing the luminescence intensity of Er3+ and Yb3+ ions for photonic applications. The diphenyl ...

Polymer Soc Korea2013

Synthesis and cell localization of self-assembled dinuclear lanthanide bioprobes

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Caroline Vandevyver, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Bo Song

Royal Society, The2013

Brilliant Photoluminescence and Triboluminescence from Ternary Complexes of Dy-III and Tb-III with 3-Phenyl-4-propanoy1-5-isoxazolonate and a Bidentate Phosphine Oxide Coligand

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti

Three new lanthanide heterocyclic beta-diketonate complexes [Dy(PPI)(3)(EtOH)(2)] (1), [Dy(PPI)(3)(DPEPO)] (2), and [Tb(PPI)(3)(DPEPO)] (3) [where HPPI = 3-pheny1-4-propanoyl-5-isoxazolone and DPEPO = bis(2(diphenylphosphino)phenyl)ether oxide] have been s ...

American Chemical Society2013

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