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

Nature is a school for scientists and engineers. After four and a half billion years of stringent
evolution, some creatures in nature exhibit fascinating surface wettability. Biomimetics …

The incorporation of luminescent lanthanide complexes in solid matrices with controlled
structural organization is of widespread interest in materials science and has witnessed …

1.1. Historic Perspective Silica and doped silica materials obtained via the solution− gelation
(“sol− gel”) inorganic polymerization process are functional materials with an impressive …

Ordered mesoporous materials prepared by the template route have attracted increasing
interest from the electrochemists community due to their plenty of unique properties and …

A review with ca. 400 references is provided dealing with the use of mesoporous silica and
organically-modified silica-based materials for removal of inorganic and organic pollutants …

Hydrogels are ubiquitous in nature, especially in living organisms.[1] Synthetic hydrogels
are used, for example, for tissue engineering, drug delivery systems (DDS), and medical …

A deoxycholic acid-modified β-cyclodextrin derivative (2) and an azobenzene-branched poly
(acrylic acid) copolymer (3) were prepared, and the association and dissociation of 2 with …

Organic–inorganic nanocomposites with high refractive index (RI) are typically constructed
by integrating high RI inorganic nanoscale building blocks into a processable, transparent …

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 …