Facile Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Luminescent Nano-Phosphors

Dear Colleagues,

Luminescent materials have been well-established for traditional solid-state lighting and display applications. They will continue to have a significant technological role for humankind in many fields, such as light emitters for flexible displays, radiation exposure monitoring, security inspection, and medical imaging. A wide range of materials, properties, and applications are of current interest, including inorganic light-emitting diode materials and devices, up-conversion luminescence, X-ray excited luminescence, optically, mechanically, and thermally stimulated luminescence, nanomaterials, and powder phosphor materials and devices. This Special Issue on “Facile Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Luminescent Nano-Phosphors” aims at inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials that have luminescent properties and is open to research that deals with synthesis methods, structural characterizations, luminescence properties, and their novel applications. They intend to focus on the latest developments in these novel luminescent properties and their preparation methods. Contributions such as reviews or original papers on basic research or applied technology of promising luminescent materials are welcomed.

The scope of the Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

Rare-earth/transition metal-doped inorganic luminescent materials;
Persistent (nano)-phosphors: recent progress and new materials;
X-ray excited luminescence, persistent luminescence, optically stimulated luminescence, thermoluminescence, photochromism, mechanoluminescence;
Novel optical materials/devices for displays, sensing, biomedical, dosimetry, X-ray imaging, and environmental applications;
New synthesis methods and techniques;
Experimental methods for characterizing nanomaterials;
New applications of luminescent nano-phosphors.

Dr. Jiaren Du
Dr. Zetian Yang
Guest Editors

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• photochromism
• persistent luminescence
• storage phosphor
• mechanoluminescence
• dosimetry
• rare-earth
• transition metal
• spectroscopy
• nano-phosphors