Multicolour synthesis in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals through cation exchange in water

De novosynthesis is the primary way to tune the emission colour of lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals. Here, the authors introduce post-synthetic cation exchange as a strategy to access multiple colours of luminescent nanocrystals, preserving the size and morphology of the original template.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sanyang Han, Xian Qin, Zhongfu An, Yihan Zhu, Liangliang Liang, Yu Han, Wei Huang, Xiaogang Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13059