In the preceding decade, the metal complexes of lanthanide ions with light harvesting
organic chromophores have garnered intensive and greater attention due to their marvelous …

Supramolecular chemistry is a comparatively young field that to date has mainly been
focused on building a foundation of fundamental understanding. With much progress in this …

Lanthanide metal–organic frameworks (Ln‐MOFs) are promising for luminescence detection
of volatile organic compound (VOC) vapors, but usually suffer from the silent or quenched …

Gadolinium (III) complexes have been widely utilised as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
contrast agents for decades. In recent years however, concerns have developed about their …

Paramagnetic chemical probes have been used in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for more than four decades. Recent …

The trivalent europium ion (Eu 3+) is well known for its strong luminescence in the red
spectral region, but this ion is also interesting from a theoretical point of view. Due to the …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are promising for applications as
wide as biological imaging, multimodal imaging, photodynamic therapy, volumetric displays …

Recent startling interest for lanthanide luminescence is stimulated by the continuously
expanding need for luminescent materials meeting the stringent requirements of …

Optical probes that provide information about local chirality have been developed based on
changes to the circular polarisation of emitted light. Highly emissive complexes of lanthanide …

Fluorescence imaging techniques involving chemical sensors are essential tools in many
fields of science and technology because they enable the visualization of parameters which …