Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Preparation of photonic molecular trains via soft-crystal polymerization of lanthanide complexes

  • Pedro Paulo Ferreira da Rosa,
  • Yuichi Kitagawa,
  • Sunao Shoji,
  • Hironaga Oyama,
  • Keisuke Imaeda,
  • Naofumi Nakayama,
  • Koji Fushimi,
  • Hidehiro Uekusa,
  • Kosei Ueno,
  • Hitoshi Goto,
  • Yasuchika Hasegawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31164-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Soft-crystals are molecular solids with highly ordered structures. Here, authors report the soft-crystal copolymerization of green-luminescent Tb(III) and yellow-luminescent Dy(III) complexes, and study the long-range energy transfer from one crystal to the other.