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Chem. Commun., 2007, 2911 - 2913, DOI: 10.1039/b702238g

Photophysical properties and tunable colour changes of silica single layers doped with lanthanide(III) complexes

Lidia Armelao, Gregorio Bottaro, Silvio Quici, Marco Cavazzini, Maria Concetta Raffo, Francesco Barigelletti and Gianluca Accorsi

Highly stable Eu(III) and Tb(III) complexes, emitting in the red and green visible regions, respectively, have been anchored onto a single SiO2 transparent layer, yielding ca. 40 nm thick films; this allows high loading of tailored proportions of the red and green emitters within the films and results in highly uniform and easily colour-tunable luminescent layers.

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