Advances in solid state white lighting technologies witness the explosive development of
phosphor materials (down-conversion luminescent materials). A large amount of evidence …

The light rare earth elements (LREEs) lanthanum, cerium, neodymium and praseodymium
are increasingly used in renewable energy technology and are applicable in portable …

White light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) as new solid-state light sources have a greatly
promising application in the field of lighting and display. So far much effort has been devoted …

Since the first description by Fievet, Lagier and Figlarz in 1989, the synthesis of
nanoparticles in high-boiling, multivalent alcohols–so-called polyols–has been developed …

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are excellent candidates for general lighting because of their
rapidly improving efficiency, durability, and reliability, their usability in products of various …

A simple, high yield, chemical process is developed to fabricate layered h-BN nanosheets
and BCNO nanoparticles with a diameter of ca. 5 nm at 700° C. The use of the eutectic …

This article presents an overview of the up-to-date developments in boron nitride nanotubes
(BNNTs), including theory, fabrication, structure, physical properties, chemical …

An efficient metal‐free catalytic system has been developed based on hexagonal boron
carbon nitride (h‐BCN) nanosheets for the dehydrogenation of N‐heterocycles with visible …

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 …

Multifunctional strontium hydroxyapatite (SrHAp) nanorods with luminescent and
mesoporous properties have been successfully synthesized by a hydrothermal method …