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Room Temperature Tunable Energy Transfer Systems In Different Solvents, Zhonghua Guo

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The focus of this thesis is on d⁸ and d¹⁰ metal-metal interactions, e.g. weak bonding in homometallic and heterometallic systems in liquid solutions, the tunability of luminescent energy due to the variation of metal-metal interaction strength in different solvents and different concentrations, as well as energy transfer from the luminescent energy tunable d⁸ and d¹⁰ metal ions clusters as donor ions to the lanthanide ions as acceptor ions at room temperature. First, energy transfer has been studied between dicyanoaurate(I) luminescent nanocluster donor ions and Eu³⁺ and Tb³⁺ acceptor ions in aqueous solutions. The emission …