Handbook on the physics and chemistry of rare earths / edited by Jean-Claude Bünzli and Vitalij K Pecharsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Front Cover; Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare EarthsVolume ; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 269: Organic Chromophores-Based Sensitization of NIR-Emitting Lanthanides: Toward Highly Efficient Halogenated Envi ... ; Chapter 270: Europium Chalcogenide Nanoparticles; Chapter 271: Hybrid Materials of the f-Elements Part I: The Lanthanides; Chapter 272: Microscopic Thermodynamic Descriptors for Rationalizing Lanthanide Complexation Processes; Chapter 273: Near-IR-Triggered Photon Upconversion: Imaging, Detection, and Therapy; Contents of Volumes 1-46 Index of Contents of Volumes 1-47Chapter 269: Organic Chromophores-Based Sensitization of NIR-Emitting Lanthanides: Toward Highly Efficient Halogenated En ... ; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Motivation and Background; 1.2. Organic-Based NIR-Emitting Lanthanide Photonic Devices; 2. Sensitization of NIR-Emitting Lanthanides; 2.1. Electronic Configuration of Organic Molecules and Semiconductors; 2.2. Electronic Configuration of Lanthanides in Material Environments; 2.3 Sensitization of NIR-Emitting Lanthanides through Organic Chromophores; 2.4 Sensitized NIR-Emitting Lanthanides in Organic Environments 2.4.1. Representative Ligands and Chromophores2.4.2 Organic Chromophores Based on Transition Metal Complexes; 2.5 NIR-Emitting Lanthanides OLEDs; 3. The NIR-Emitting Efficiency of Luminescent Lanthanides; 3.1. The NIR-Emitting Lanthanides Radiative Probability and Judd-Ofelt Formalism; 3.2 The NIR-Emitting Lanthanides Nonradiative Vibrational Quenching; 4. Strategies to Decrease Multiphonon-Quenching of the NIR-Emitting Lanthanides; 4.1. Deuteration; 4.2. Fluorination; 4.3. Perfluorination; 4.3.1. Perfluorinated Ligands and Lanthanide Environments 4.3.2. Other Effects of Highly Fluorinated and Perfluorinated Ligands and Environments4.4. Other Halogens; 4.5. Other Effects of Halogenation; 5. Energy Transfer Between Lanthanides; 5.1. Cross-Relaxation and Energy Migration; 5.2. Energy Transfer Upconversion; 6. Composite Materials with IR-Based Lanthanide Sensitizations Through Organic Chromophores; 6.1. Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials; 6.2. Composite Organic Materials; 7. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgment; Abbreviations and Symbols; References; Chapter 270: Europium Chalcogenide Nanoparticles; 1. Introduction 1.1. General Introduction1.2. Brief History of Europium Semiconductors; 1.3. Brief History of Europium Chalcogenide Nanoparticles; 2. Preparation Methods; 2.1. Liquid Ammonia Method; 2.2. Photochemical Reactions; 2.3. Single-Source Precursor Method; 2.4. Electrochemical Deposition; 2.5. Vapor Phase Conversions; 3. Glass Materials; 3.1. Polymeric Materials; 3.2. Silica Glass Materials; 4. Electronic and Photophysical Properties; 4.1. Absorption and Emission Spectra; 4.2. Photo-Induced Magnetic Properties; 5. Magnetic and Optomagnetic Properties; 5.1. Magnetic Properties

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths is a continuing series of books covering all aspects of rare earth science, including chemistry, life sciences, materials science, and physics. The handbook emphasizes rare earth elements [Sc, Y and the lanthanides (La through Lu)] but, when relevant, information also is included about the closely related actinide elements. The individual chapters are comprehensive, broad, up-to-date critical reviews written by highly experienced invited experts. The series, which was started in 1978 by Professor Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr., combines and integrates both the fundamentals and applications of these elements and now publishes two volumes a year