Two-Color Three-State Luminescent Lanthanide Core-Shell Crystals.

Cristina M BaloghLaurent VeyreGuillaume PiletCyril CharlesLaurent ViriotChantal AndraudChloé ThieuleuxFrançois RiobéOlivier Maury
Published in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2017)
Luminescent core-shell crystals based on lanthanide tris-dipicolinate complexes were obtained from the successive growing of two different lanthanide complex layers. Selective or simultaneous emission of each part of the crystal can be achieved by a careful choice of the excitation wavelength.