Explorations in Luminescent Complexes
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Photochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2022) | Viewed by 14193
Special Issue Editor
Interests: photophysics; photochemistry; metal–organic luminescent materials; molecular recognition and supramolecular coordination assembly and their applications
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Dear Colleagues,
Metal−organic coordination complexes can be made to exhibit a wide range of photoluminescence (PL) behaviors by the integration and installation of metal ions, organic linkers, and inclusion guests. The PL’s origins can be multifaceted, from ligand/metal/guest-centered to involving metal-to-ligand, ligand-to-metal, or host–guest charge transfer states. The photon conversion and energy transfer processes can be differentiated from one-photon down-shifts to two or multi-photon up-conversions, resulting in UV/visible/near-infrared fluorescence, phosphorescence, or persistent luminescence. The PL tuning and modulating strategies can vary from temperature, pressure, solvent, ions, or pH to light, electric, or magnetic fields. The potential applications are abundant, and range from lighting, displays, lasing, imaging, sensing, and detecting to barcoding and anti-counterfeiting. We will dedicate this Special Issue to state-of-the-art explorations of any aspect of luminescent complexes.
Prof. Dr. Mei Pan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- luminescent complexes
- photon conversion
- energy transfer
- MLCT and LMCT
- two-photon excited emission
- up-conversion
- amplified spontaneous emission
- room-temperature phosphorescence
- persistent luminescence
- near-infrared
- PL sensor
- anti-counterfeiting
- cell imaging
- white LEDs