This article reviews activities related to a new photoluminescence phenomenon involving
inexplicable blue fluorescence emissions first observed in simple aliphatic amines and poly …

The photoluminescence properties of rare-earth (lanthanide) compounds have been
fascinating researchers for decades. 1-14 An attractive feature of luminescent lanthanide …

Luminescent materials have found a wide variety of applications, including information
displays, lighting, X-ray intensification and scintillation, and so on. Therefore, much effort has …

Nonconventional luminescent materials have been rising stars in organic luminophores due
to their intrinsic characteristics, including water‐solubility, biocompatibility, and …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) with high performances depend on not only the
luminescent materials, but their dispersed polymer matrixes. However, carbon dots (CDs) …

YVO4 nano/microcrystals with multiform morphologies, such as nanoparticles,
microdoughnut, micropancake, pillar structure, and microflower, have been synthesized via …

Research into lanthanide-doped organic–inorganic hybrid materials emerged in the 1990s
with the development of interesting materials for optics: high efficiency and stable solid-state …

Room‐temperature white light emission can be obtained from a family of europium‐
containing hybrid materials called di‐ureasils—organically modified silicates in which …

Triplet–triplet-annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) has attracted significant attention as an
approach to harvest low energy solar photons that cannot be captured by conventional …

The intrinsic photoluminescence properties of hyperbranched polyethylenimines (PEIs) and
their linear counterpart (LPEIs) have been studied in absence of any classical fluorescent …