Simple, common but functional: biocompatible and luminescent rare-earth doped magnesium and calcium hydroxides from miniemulsion
- 29 August 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry B
- Vol. 2 (38) , 6639-6651
Abstract
Highly luminescent Ca(OH) 2 :Ln and Mg(OH) 2 :Ln (Ln = Eu III , Sm III , Tb III , Mg(Ca)/Ln = 20 : 1) nanostructures were obtained in inverse miniemulsion by exploiting the droplets to spatially confine the hydroxide precipitation in basic environment.Keywords
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