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Luminescence Antenna Behavior In Lanthanide Complexes And Luminescence Sensing In Group 11 Iodides, Francis Barnes

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In this thesis luminescent materials are studied. The luminescent materials studied are lanthanide complexes and group 11 iodide sensing abilities. Emission intensity of the lanthanide complexes through direct excitation of the lanthanide ion are relatively weak. To overcome this, three unique organic ligands were utilized to synthesize lanthanide nitrate complexes in which higher emission intensity can be observed via the antenna effect. Increased emission intensity resulted for Eu^III and Tb^III complexes for each ligand except triphenylphosphane oxide (only the Tb^III complex demonstrated increased emission intensity). Latva’s empirical rule allows for the antenna effect to occur, in which …