Persistent luminescence (PL) is a distinctive optical phenomenon with long‐lasting afterglow
emissions after the cessation of excitation, thus emerging huge prospects in the applications …

Great progress has been made in inorganic persistent phosphors, especially in the recent
two decades, motivated by the discoveries of the SrAl 2 O 4: Eu 2+-Dy 3+ in the green and …

When the bright green-emitting SrAl 2 O 4: Eu, Dy persistent phosphor was described in the
literature in 1996, this presented a real breakthrough in performance, both in terms of initial …

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) materials, enabling energy storage by capturing of
charge carriers and then the energy conversion to light via photostimulation, can find many …

Optical characteristics of phosphors, eg color output, decay process and external field
stimulation mode (including opto-, thermo-and mechano-stimulation), play an important role …

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UiO-66 is a promising metal–organic framework for photocatalytic applications. However,
the ligand-to-metal charge transfer of an excited electron is inefficient in the pristine material …

Half a century after its initial emergence, lanthanide photonics is facing a profound
remodeling induced by the upsurge of nanomaterials. Lanthanide‐doped nanomaterials …

Glow‐in‐the‐dark materials have been around for a long time. While formerly materials had
to be mixed with radioactive elements to achieve a sufficiently long and bright afterglow …

To circumvent the large global demand of around∼ 15% of the total power requirements just
for electric lighting, there is an urgent need of devolving cost-effective rare earth free …