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Takuya Sagami1, Yuhei O Tahara2, Makoto Miyata3
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585, Japan. shinodas@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp.
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Self-assembled europium(iii) complexes produced dispersed nanoparticles with diameters of about 4-8 nm, which exhibited long-lived luminescence in a 20 wt% EtOH-H2O solution. The complexes could sense weakly hydrated anions, such as perchlorate, by a change in luminescence intensity using an anion displacement method.
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