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Encapsulation of Ln(III) ions/Ag nanoparticles within Cd(ii) boron imidazolate frameworks for tuning luminescence
Min Liu1, Shumei Chen1, Tian Wen2
1College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, China. csm@fzu.edu.cn and State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. twen@fjirsm.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Two Cd(ii) boron imidazolate frameworks (/) with different topologies have been synthesized by the targeted assembly of aromatic carboxylate, tetradentate imidazolate ligands, possessing tunable luminescence emission properties. Hydroxy-functional neutral shows an obvious blue shift of luminescence after loading Ag nanoparticles (NPs) while the first reported anionic in the BIF system with blue emission can tune the white-light emission via doping mixed Ln(3+) in an appropriate ratio (Ln = Eu and Tb).

