Fullerenes containing nanocomposite materials for optical applications have attracted the
attention of many different research groups during the last few years. Great effort has been …

A new type of solid state laser, tunable in the visible range, has been developed recently.
Incorporation of perylimide and pyrromethene dyes into glasses prepared by the sol-gel …

We present the preparation of novel multifunctional nanostructured composite materials
using the sol-gel process. We have demonstrated the doping of two optical limiting organic …

We investigate the effects of controlled poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) doping on the behavior
of pyrene, rhodamine 6G (R6G), and acrylodan-labeled bovine serum albumin (BSA-Ac) …

We explore the potential of xerogel composites to tailor the behavior of active dopants that
are sequestered within the xerogel. Toward this end, we report on the local dipolarity and …

Steady-state fluorescence and fluorescence decay measurements were carried out on a
perylene-labeled triblock copolymer, polystyrene-b-poly (ethylene-co-butylene)-b …

The family of fullerene molecules is composed of a large variety of compounds that have
been synthesized following the discovery of C 60 in 1985. The chemistry of fullerenes …

Three new hemicyanine dyes that feature a fixed pyridine cation as electron acceptor, trans,
trans-4-{4-[4-(N, N-diphenylamino) styryl] styryl}-N-methylpyridinium iodide (1), trans, trans-4 …

A blue solid-state laser material based on 4, 4′ dibenzyl carbamido stilbene-2, 2′
disulfonic acid incorporated into solgel zirconia and inorganic-organic hybrid matrices is …

The authors report on an intense blue emission centered at 420 nm under ultraviolet
excitation from pentavalent tantalum ion-doped silicate glasses. The blue emission is …