Materials Today Nano
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2026
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Hao Chen,Liang Li,Xuefang Lu,Shunze Huang,Man Xia,Jianzhong Xu,Xiwei Lai,Zewenhui Zhang,Xin Qian,Tianyu Xu,Feng Huang,Richeng Lin
Ultrathin scintillators are key components of high-spatial-resolution X-ray detectors in medical imaging, high-precision nondestructive inspection, and high-energy physics. Currently, the spatial resolution of X-ray imaging detector generally is enabled by high-light-yield scintillators with minimal optical scattering. However, suppressing optical scattering losses typically require the scintillation layers thinner than a few tens of micrometers, which is difficult to obtain through conventional top-down mechanical thinning. Here, a bottom-up method that rapidly growing inch-sized, Eu 3+ /Tb 3+ doped lanthanide oxychloride (LaOCl) films via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is proposed to obtain large-area ultrathin scintillators. The doping Eu 3+ /Tb 3+ ions act as luminescent activators and provide strong red and green scintillation through efficient f-f intra-configurational transitions, which are shielded from the host lattice by the outer 5s 2 5p 6 electron shells, resulting in sharp emission lines and high quantum efficiency. The layered crystal structure of LaOCl further facilitates anisotropic growth, enabling precise control of film thickness from a few atomic layers up to the micrometer scale. The growing LaOCl:Eu 3+ film with thickness of approximately 30 μm shows a photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 99.3%, and demonstrating an ultralow X-ray dose-rate detection limit of 143.41 nGy s −1 , owing to efficient energy transfer from the LaOCl host to the activator ions. Furthermore, the growing LaOCl:Eu 3+ /Tb 3+ films exhibit excellent linear response and radiation hardness under X-ray exposure, retaining above 95% of their initial intensity after prolonged cyclic irradiation at 27.8 μGy s −1 for 24,000 s. These results demonstrate CVD-grown LaOCl:Ln films as a promising platform for high-resolution and low-dose X-ray imaging detection. An ultrathin scintillator film is fabricated via an unconventional bottom-up chemical vapor deposition–driven evaporation growth method. The oriented attachment and layer-by-layer stacking of LaOCl:Ln 3+ crystal nuclei enables the fabrication of centimeter-scale ultrathin films with controllable thickness. The doping Eu 3+ and Tb 3+ act as luminescent activators, generating intense red and green emissions through efficient 4f-4f intra-configurational transitions. Owing to the effective shielding of the outer 5s 2 5p 6 electron shells, these transitions exhibit sharp emission lines and exceptionally high quantum efficiency. For LaOCl:Eu 3+ films with a thickness of approximately 30 μm, the photoluminescence quantum yields achieves a near unit of 99.3%, demonstrating an ultralow X-ray detection limits of 143.41 nGy s −1 and outstanding radiation stability. Download: Download high-res image (333KB) Download: Download full-size image
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Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 34
·6443-6452
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IF 7.571
Dan Xiu,Sibo Zhao,Zhenhua Li,Yanan Xu,Yao Wang,Zhijun Zhu,Min Zhang,Christopher D. Snow,Laurence A. Belfiore,Jianguo Tang
In this work, a designed porous DNA crystal with high intrinsic biocompatibility was used as the scaffold material to load fluorescent guest molecules to detect anti-cancer drugs. It is shown here that the synthesized crystals have the characteristics consistent with the designed large solvent channels, and can therefore accommodate guest molecules such as fluorescent proteins that cannot be accommodated by less porous crystals. Eu(TTA)3phen and Tb(acac)3phen lanthanide complexes were individually noncovalently loaded into the porous crystals, resulting in hybrid luminescent DNA crystals. Emodin, an anti-cancer, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory drug, was found to quench lanthanide complexes in solution or in crystals. Notably, emodin is the active ingredient of Lianhua Qingwen Capsule, an anti-COVID-19 drug candidate. Therefore, the porous DNA crystals reported here have potential applications as a biocompatible and theranostic delivery biomaterial for functional macromolecules.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2015
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IF 2.999
Yuexin Wang,Yanhua Song,Xiuqing Zhou,Keyan Zheng,Ye Sheng,Pingchuan Ma,Bowen Zhang,Meiqi Chang,Haifeng Zou
Uniform Lu 2 (C 4 H 4 O 6 ) 3 ·6H 2 O cauliflower-like microspheres have been synthesized via a direct precipitation method at room temperature, without any templates and catalysts. The solvent-dependent morphological evolution and the formation mechanism of the Lu 2 (C 4 H 4 O 6 ) 3 ·6H 2 O cauliflower-like microspheres were investigated in detail. Furthermore, Eu 3+ /Tb 3+ -doped Lu 2 O 3 inherited their parents' morphology were obtained through a direct annealing process. The Lu 2 (C 4 H 4 O 6 ) 3 ·6H 2 O:Eu 3+ , Lu 2 O 3 :Eu 3+ exhibit strong red emission corresponding to the 5 D 0 - 7 F j transition of the Eu 3+ ions. The Lu 2 (C 4 H 4 O 6 ) 3 ·6H 2 O:Tb 3+ , Lu 2 O 3 :Tb 3+ exhibit strong green emission corresponding to the 5 D 4 - 7 F j transition of the Tb 3+ ions under UV light excitation. The samples may have potential applications in the fields, such as light-emitting phosphors, advanced flat panel displays, or biological labeling.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2024
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Tonghui Li,Wenfei Shen,Zaixin Long,Yanying Zhang,Yao Wang,Wei Wang,Zhonglin Du,Jiuxing Wang,Laurence A. Belfiore,Olle Inganäs,Jianguo Tang
UV protection of polymer solar cells is significant to extend the duration of life and to improve their efficiency. Diatom shells doped with Eu3+/Tb3+ complexes (ETDSs) can be used as an efficient absorber and down-conversion agent for these purposes. In this work, the goal is effective UV protection and photovoltaic efficiency enhancement of polymer solar cells using DSs doped with Eu3+/Tb3+ complexes. These Eu3+/Tb3+ complexes in DSs are anchored at porous walls through a grafted coupling agent. As a strong UV absorber and efficiency enhancer, ETDSs were compounded into the cellulose acetate (CA) matrix to get an ETDS@CA flexible luminescent film. This luminescent film with high UV absorption in the range of 200–400 nm down converts UV photons into photons in visible, at 612 nm. We spin-coat the mixture solution of ETDS and CA onto the back surface of the transparent ITO/glass electrode to set up the ETDS@CA protected polymer solar cell. In this way, both UV protection and polymer solar cell efficiency enhancement are achieved. The experimental data indicated that ETDS@CA coated polymer solar cells can maintain 80% of the initial efficiency after UV-radiation for 1000 h, compared with 40% of unprotected polymer solar cells. Correspondingly, the efficiency of polymer solar cells has been enhanced by 4%. This method can be developed into a new and highly efficient way to UV protect polymer solar cells, as the original structure of polymer solar cells is not modified, with only an additional UV protection layer on the other side of the substrate.
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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE
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2025
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Yuheng Zhang,Xin Wang,Nan Chen,Xuezhong Gong,Yao Wang,Olga Grigoryeva,Jun Li,Ihor Rusetskyi,Mykhailo Danilov,Alexander Fainleib,Petro Stryzhak,Jianguo Tang
Cyanate ester resin (CER) is an excellent thermosetting polymer. However, its brittleness and poor mechanical properties limit its application. The innovation of this work lies in the smart collaborative toughening effects of Eu 3+ /Tb 3+ @uCNTs working together with phenolphthalein polyether sulfone (marked as PES-C) on dicyanate ester of bisphenol F. Tb 3+ -complex enhances Eu 3+ @uCNT-effects, and the cooperation of PES-C together with Eu 3+ -Tb 3+ @uCNTs (marked as ET-uC) functions strongly to increase flexural, tensile, and impact strengths by 209%, 120%, and 286%, respectively. When additions of ET-uC ratio at 0.6 wt% and PES-C ratio at 15% to CER. At the same time, we can get more multiple enhancing effects can be observed as below. The introduction of ET-uC reduces the curing temperature of the composite material from 342°C to 271°C. At the same time, the mass loss rate decreased from 87% to 55%. The intensity of luminescent CER/ET-uC/PES-C is much stronger compared to CER/ET-C/PES-C. If the curing temperature is 250°C, the luminescence lifetimes of CER/ET-C/PES-C and CER/ET-uC/PES-C become 411.23 and 731.91 μs, respectively. These strong data confirm that our strategy of ET-uC collaborating with the linear thermal stable polymer of PES-C functions has generated the breakthrough to improve the comprehensive properties of CER. Graphical Schematic diagram of preparation of CER/ET-uC/PES-C composite material.
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LUMINESCENCE
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2021
·Vol. 37
·期 2
·348-356
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IF 2.464
Shilin Shen,Zerong Long,Yi Lu,Jia Chen
A novel double-windows fluorescence sensor for carbofuran (CF) detection was successfully developed based on rare-earth Eu,Tb-doped Y 2 O 3 @SiO 2 -based molecularly imprinted nanoparticles (MINs) with a multilayer core-shell structure. The recognition process of the MINs for CF was fairly fast and needed only ~8 min to reach a dynamic equilibrium. Interestingly, one fluorescence attenuation window was found with an increase in CF concentration ( Q ) from 0.1 to 10 μg ml −1 and with a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.04 μg ml −1 at 544 nm belonging to the Tb 3+ emission, as well as another fluorescence enhanced window within the CF concentration range 10–100 μg ml −1 (LOD = 4 μg ml −1 ) at 617 nm of Eu 3+ emission in the dispersed rare-earth-doped MIN colloidal aqueous solution. Luminescence resonance energy transfer from CF to Eu 3+ and an inner filter effect of CF towards Tb 3+ , as well from the two independent detection windows were clearly observed simultaneously. The competition experiment displayed hardly any marked interference during detection of CF following addition of its analogues (carbaryl, isoprocarb, aldicarb, methomyl, and etofenprox). Moreover, the MINs could also be applied to accurately detect CF in rhubarb and wolfberry samples with recoveries of 85.7–92.2%. This sensing system has high specific recognition and a wide detection range for CF and provides new opportunities for pesticide detection.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2023
·Vol. 52
·期 36
·12958-12967
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IF 4
Jiejun Pan,Guang Xu,Sixue Ren,Tingjie Xu,Dongrui Li,Mengxin Liu,Xinan Shi,Daocheng Pan
Rare earth-doped metal oxide thin films exhibit remarkable potential for application in anti-counterfeiting, owing to their exceptional fluorescent properties. However, the existing fabrication techniques for these rare earth-doped luminescent thin films are predominantly complex and necessitate high-temperature conditions. In light of this issue, we present a low-temperature method for in situ fabrication of luminescent Ca1−xMoO4:Eux3+ and Sr1−xMoO4:Tbx3+ nanocrystal thin films by a solution deposition process. The developed method has the advantages of simple operation, rapid and low-temperature synthesis. The optimal chemical compositions of molybdate-based luminescent films are Ca0.90MoO4:Eu0.103+ and Sr0.90MoO4:Tb0.103+. Moreover, we evaluate the practical feasibility of luminescent nanoparticle films in the field of anti-counterfeiting by combining the unique fluorescent properties of rare earth ions and designing customized fluorescent patterns.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2023
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Shaokun Ling,Xiaoyan Qin,Chang chen,Kai Meng,Yifeng Yan,Junyun Ming,Sen Liao,Yingheng Huang,Lei Hou
Despite long-term development of LEDs, problems urgent to resolve is still existing. The most outstanding problem to tackle is luminescent stability at high temperature working situation. In this study, a novel type of β-NaYF 4 based phosphor incorporated with Eu 3+ and Tb 3+ is reported. A series of β-NaYF 4 :0.065Eu 3+ , x Tb 3+ ( x = 0.001, 0.002, 0.003, 0.004, 0.005) phosphors were synthesized by hydrothermal method . The sample β-NaYF 4 :0.065Eu 3+ ,0.002Tb 3+ possesses optimal luminescent property at room temperature. The mechanism of energy transfer from Tb 3+ to Eu 3+ ion is quadrupole-quadrupole interactions. The sample β-NaYF 4 :0.065Eu 3+ ,0.002Tb 3+ demonstrates zero thermal quenching (ZTQ) property at 303 K to 383 K. According to XRD and XPS characterizations, nonequivalent replacement between intrinsic ion Na + and Y 3+ were discovered, which finally leads to production of crystal defects. According to electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) characterization and density functional theory (DFT) calculation, the type of crystal defect of β-NaYF 4 :0.065Eu 3+ ,0.002Tb 3+ is confirmed to be V Y vacancies which are the predominant defect of crystal. The depths and densities of defects were calculated according to data of thermoluminescence spectra (TL spectra). Crystal defects play the role of electrons traps that could store electrons. Electrons stored in traps will be excited to excitation state of Eu 3+ under the thermal stimulation to offset undesirable impact of thermal quenching (TQ), which leads to ZTQ property of the sample β-NaYF 4 :0.065Eu 3+ ,0.002Tb 3+ . The CRI and CCT of fabricated WLED are 3830 K and 84.1, respectively.
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MOLECULES
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2024
·Vol. 29
·期 21
·5070
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IF 4.2
Yupeng Bi,Longlong Li,Jin Liu,Yao Wang,Boying Wang,Yanxin Wang,Christopher D. Snow,Jun Li,Matt J. Kipper,Laurence A. Belfiore,Jianguo Tang
To avoid the critical problems of effective drugs not being carried to their targeted cancers and their quantity and location not being sensed in situ, this work presents a completely new innovative strategy to achieve both smart cancer targeting (SCT) and super-sensitive sensing (SSS), where one drug carrier works for effective drug loading and release. Herein, malignant melanoma treatment is used as an example of reliable detection and effective therapy. We report two characteristic dumbbell-like nano-micelles and spherical-like nano-micelles of hyaluronan induced by the Eu3+/Tb3+complexes for effective drug loading and release, respectively. These special Eu3+/Tb3+-loaded nano-micelles (marked as ENM and TNM) have strong and sharp red/green luminescence that can sensitively detect the malignant melanoma drug dacarbazine through changes in fluorescence intensity. Cytotoxicity experiments confirmed that both ENM and TNM are not toxic to normal cells at very high concentrations of 4 mM. However, when loaded with cancer drugs (D-ENM and D-ENM), they both killed cancer cells with more than 40% efficacy at this concentration. The in vivo experiments confirmed that D-ENM and D-TNM can effectively target cancer cells in tissue and effectively impede cancer growth. The detection limits of ENM and TNM in sensing cancer drugs can reach 0.456 μg/mL and 0.139 μg/mL, respectively. Therefore, the reported Eu3+/Tb3+-induced hyaluronan nano-micelles (ENM and TNM) are distinguished carriers of this cancer drug and excellent in situ sensors, and they have highly therapeutic effects with extremely low toxicity to normal cells.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2019
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Sayed Ali Khan,Abdul Jalil,Qudrat Ullah Khan,Rana Muhammad Irfan,Ikhtisham Mehmood,Karim Khan,Maryam Kiani,Binbin Dong,Noor Zamin Khan,Jun-Ling Yu,Ling Zhu,Simeon Agathopoulos
A novel single-phase white-light-emitting YPO 4 phosphor, single and co-doped with Dy 3+ /Eu 3+ , aiming at UV-pumping in white-light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) which exhibits an outstanding optical performance, was successfully produced. The crystal structure, the morphology, the electronic band structure , the electronic configuration, and the bond length of the prepared phosphors were thoroughly investigated, both experimentally and by computational methodology. The results showed that the host lattice provides various surrounding environments to the Eu 3+ activators is a results of Eu 3+ single and Dy 3+ /Eu 3+ co – doped YPO 4 phosphors. Under ultra-violet (UV) excitation (353 nm), the prepared tetragonal phase YPO 4 :Dy 3+ phosphors emitted a bluish-white-light because it has peaks of similar intensity in the blue and the yellow spectral region . The emission spectrum can be tuned from bluish white to green/yellow/red and warm white by adjusting the concentration of Tb 3+ /Eu 3+ dopants . A high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQYs) 68.55% was achieved. It was observed that the tetragonal YPO 4 :Tb 3+ /Dy 3+ /Eu 3+ phosphors emit-white-light which covers the whole visible region, and have good thermal stability from 20 to 200 °C. Finally, a WLED was fabricated by using a UV LED (365 nm) chip coated with the optimized YPO 4 :Tb 3+ /Dy 3+ /Eu 3+ single-phase phosphor, demonstrating an excellent white-light emission with a high CRI value (R a = 92) and a low CCT value (T c = 2497 K). Hence, the produced material is a promising candidate for UV-pumped single-phase phosphor-converted WLEDs.
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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
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2015
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IF 2.288
Qiang Zhang,Ye Sheng,Keyan Zheng,Xuming Qin,Pingchuan Ma,Haifeng Zou
Novel organic–inorganic hybrid amorphous thin films were synthesized by linking lanthanide (Tb 3+ , Eu 3+ ) complexes through 3,4-bis(3-(triethoxysilyl)propylcarbamoyloxy)benzoic acid using sol–gel method. These inorganic–organic hybrids were characterized in detail by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, wide angle X-ray diffraction, themogravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscope, and fluorescence spectra. The above research results indicate that the hybrids possess high thermal-stability, amorphous structure features and especially favorable luminescent performances, such as long luminescent decay lifetime, high quantum yield etc.
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JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
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2024
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Sibo Zhao,Dan Xiu,Min Zhang,Yao Wang,Miao Qiu,Christopher D. Snow,Yanxin Wang,Laurence A. Belfiore,Jianguo Tang
In this study, a highly sensitive anticancer drug sensor was synthesized using DNA crystals loaded with luminescent Ln 3+ (Eu 3+ /Tb 3+ ) complexes. The sensors exhibited a pronounced color transformation property due to the differential quenching of Eu 3+ and Tb 3+ emissions upon drug interactions. These luminescent hybrid DNA crystals present a significant advancement in sensing anticancer drugs like curcumin, transitioning from monitoring fluorescence intensity changes to a visually discernable color change. This new approach eliminates the need for specialized instrumentation. Owing to the intrinsic biocompatibility of materials composed of DNA, this hybrid sensor has the potential to sense drugs within the human body. Hybrid crystals loaded with a single complex will lose their fluorescence properties due to drug quenching; however, crystals loaded with mixed complexes emit distinct fluorescent colors, such as yellow-green and orange-red, at different drug concentrations. This color transformation allows for the direct determination of drug concentration based on crystal color, making the sensing process more simple and easily observable.
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