Terbium-fluorido cluster: an energy cage for photoluminescence

Bo-Kai Ling1, Junhao Li2, Yuan-Qi Zhai1

  • 1Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi'an Jiaotong University Shenzhen Research School, State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior for Materials, MOE Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis of Condensed Matter, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Sustainable Energy and Materials Chemistry and School of Chemistry, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 99 Yanxiang Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710054, P. R. China. zheng.yanzhen@xjtu.edu.cn.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 10, 2020
PubMed

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