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Zaiwei Wang, Lewei Zeng, Tong Zhu, Hao Chen, Bin Chen, Dominik J. Kubicki, Adam Balvanz, Chongwen Li, Aidan Maxwell, Esma Ugur, Roberto dos Reis, Matthew Cheng, Guang Yang, Biwas Subedi, Deying Luo, Juntao Hu, Junke Wang, Sam Teale, Suhas Mahesh, Sasa Wang, Shuangyan Hu, Eui Dae Jung, Mingyang Wei, So Min Park, Luke Grater, Erkan Aydin, Zhaoning Song, Nikolas J. Podraza, Zheng-Hong Lu, Jinsong Huang, Vinayak P. Dravid, Stefaan De Wolf, Yanfa Yan, Michael Gratzel, Merx G. Kanatzidis, Edward H. Sargent
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S. de Wet, T. Laskar, P. J. Groot, F. Cavallaro, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. Chastain, L. Izzo, A. Levan, D. B. Malesani, I. M. Monageng, A. J. van der Horst, W. Zheng, S. Bloemen, A. V. Filippenko, D. A. Kann, S. Klose, D. L. A. Pieterse, A. Rau, P. M. Vreeswijk, P. Woudt, Z. -P. Zhu
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Andrew G. Kessenikh, Uliana S. Novoyatlova, Sergey Bazhenov, Eugeniya A. Stepanova, Svetlana A. Khrulnova, Eugeny Yu Gnuchikh, Vera Yu Kotova, Anna A. Kudryavtseva, Maxim Bermeshev, Ilya Manukhov
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
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Keita Yoshioka, Yixuan Zhang, Guanyi Lu, Andrew Bunger, Jose Adachi, Blaise Bourdin
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ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING
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Mohammad Faizan, Ahmad Faraz, Anayat Rasool Mir, Shamsul Hayat
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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
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Xiangyang Yuan, Endian Cui, Kai Liu, Flavia Artizzu, Xiaoling Liao, Juntao Zhao, Jianfeng Tang, Wei Sun, Jing Liu, Yingshuai Liu
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Inigo Perez-Heras, Christo Tsilifis, Mary A. Slatter, Siggeir F. Brynjolfsson, Asgeir Haraldsson, Andrew R. Gennery
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CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
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Frances S. Grudzinska, Alice Jasper, Elizabeth Sapey, David R. Thickett, Claudio Mauro, Aaron Scott, Jonathan Barlow
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Chengjun Liu, Yuyi Zhang, Manman Luo, Lixi Wang, Xingyu Liu, Jiangyong Pan, Zihan Zhao, Fan Fang, Lei Mao, Yuling Huang, Bingqi Wang, Congyuan Lin, Wei Lei, Qing Li, Zhiwei Zhao, Jun Wu, Zhuoya Zhu, Mehmet Ertugrul, Xiaobing Zhang, Jing Chen, Dewei Zhao
Summary: We report a new fluorescent material with low cost, hypotoxicity, and concealment for anti-counterfeiting applications. The CsCu2I3@Cs3Cu2I5 composite exhibits triple-mode photoluminescence by adjusting excitation wavelengths due to multiple excited states of different phases. The composite shows broadband emission and high quantum yield from the self-trapped excitons effect of Cs3Cu2I5 and CsCu2I3 phases, and its stability is improved by incorporating polyethylene oxide. The composite only has slight decay in PL intensity and color coordinate after storage, and it maintains its initial PL intensity even after 200 hours of UV exposure.
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Zoran Ristic, Vesna Dordevic, Mina Medic, Sanja Kuzman, Milica Sekulic, Zeljka Antic, Miroslav D. Dramicanin
Summary: Cr3+-doped Mg2SiO4 orthorhombic nanoparticles were synthesized using a combustion method, showing deep-red emission due to the 3d(3) electron configuration of the Cr3+ ion. The temperature-induced changes in emission from Cr3+-doped Mg2SiO4 were tested for ratiometric luminescence thermometry from cryogenic to physiologically relevant temperatures, with relative sensitivities of 0.7% K-1 for emission intensity, 0.8% K-1 for lifetime, and 0.85% K-1 for band position at 310 K.
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
