In principle, the millisecond emission lifetimes of lanthanide chelates should enable their ultrasensitive detection in biological systems by time-resolved optical microscopy. In practice, however, ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new class of lanthanide-doped nanomaterials that exhibit extraordinarily high optical nonlinearity, exceeding a magnitude ...

UV-Visible-NIR microspectroscopy brings together high spatial resolution of microscopy and the spectral analysis capabilities of spectroscopy, encompassing the ultraviolet (UV), visible and ...

X-rays are electromagnetic waves with short wavelengths and strong penetrability in physical matter, including live organisms. Scintillators capable of converting X-rays into the ultraviolet (UV), ...

The lanthanide elements’ 4f electron orbitals are notoriously shy and retiring, and they were long thought to be unwilling partners in chemical bonding. Now chemists have brought out a surprising ...

WOLEDs have a great application prospect in daily lighting owing to their merits of low energy consumption, eye protection, and additional flexibility potential. Compared with stacked WOLEDs or ...

A team of scientists was recently able to observe how promethium forms chemical bonds when placed in an aqueous solution. Proving a hypothesis can be exciting, but witnessing something that has never ...

Lanthanides are an essential part of modern life, used in permanent magnets, electronics, and catalysts. But these 15 rare earth elements are chemically very similar, making them difficult to separate ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, researchers under the direction of Associate Professor Shinji Harada from Chiba University's Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences ...

Bringing a new sparkle to lanthanide nanocrystals The team's breakthrough, reported in Nature, emerged from reimagining how light is generated. Instead of forcing current through insulating ...