Manipulating energy migration in nanoparticles toward tunable photochromic upconversion by Jinshu Huang, Langping Tu, Haozhang Huang, Haopeng Wei, Qinyuan Zhang, Bo Zhou

“…Abstract Smart control of energy interactions plays a key role in manipulating upconversion dynamics and tuning emission colors for lanthanide-doped materials. However, quantifying the energy flux in particular energy migration in the representative sensitizer-activator coupled upconversion system has remained a challenge. …”
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Hydrothermal Synthesis and Tunable Multicolor Upconversion Emission of Cubic Phase Y2O3 Nanoparticles by Haibo Wang, Chao Qian, Zhigao Yi, Ling Rao, Hongrong Liu, Songjun Zeng

“…Highly crystalline body-centered cubic structure Y2O3 with lanthanide (Ln) codopants (Ln = Yb3+/Er3+ and Yb3+/Ho3+) has been synthesized via a moderate hydrothermal method in combination with a subsequent calcination. …”
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Selective Americium Separation: New Insights into the Complexation of Trivalent f-Elements with SO3-Ph-BTBP by Sauerwein Fynn S., Sittel Thomas, Geist Andreas, Panak Petra J., Wilden Andreas, Modolo Giuseppe

“…Additionally, combinations of monoand di-methylated TODGA derivatives with SO3-Ph-BTBP were tested, showing a decreasing performance regarding the actinide(III)/lanthanide(III) and Am(III)/Cm(III) separation with increasing degree of methylation.…”
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The development of a kinetic biotic ligand model to predict acute toxicity of Gadolinium for Daphnia magna by Marion Revel, Qiao-Guo Tan, Andrew Hursthouse, Susanne Heise

“…The metal Gadolinium (Gd) is a member of the lanthanide (Ln) group and is recognized as an emerging pollutant due to its widespread application in modern technology. …”
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Luminescence enhancement of Y2O3:Er3+ and Y2O3:Yb3+/Er3+ sub-microcrystals by Zr4+ ions Co-doping by Zixuan Jiang, Bing Liu, Zehua Zhang, Lili Wang, Zhixu Jia, Dan Zhao

“…This research contributes to the understanding of UC luminescent properties of lanthanide (Ln3+) ions doped UC materials and their technological applications in fields such as bioimaging, drug delivery, and optical temperature sensors.…”
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Efficient recovery of rare metal lanthanum from water by MOF-modified biochar: DFT calculation and dynamic adsorption by Qilan Huang, Qianru Zhang, Shuwen Zhao, Chuchen Zhang, Huixin Guan, Jianqiao Liu

“…Ligand exchange and La–O–Fe formation dominated in lanthanide ion removal. Graphical Abstract…”
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Rare-earth-induced peroxo-phosphotungstates: Enhanced proton conductivity in corresponding membranes by Qianqian Shang, Keqin Shen, Dongyan Zhao, Xiaoyue Wang, Yuting Wei, Haiying Wang, Guan Wang, Dongdi Zhang, Jingyang Niu

“…However, although the original {P3W6(O2)6} building block remained, a completely new structure was achieved in these two lanthanide-based peroxo-POT derivatives that was induced by the rare-earth cations. 2D-Ln2 was composed of {P2W6(O2)4} polyanion units linked by replacing {PW3(O2)3} with {PW3(O2)2}, while 1D-Ln was composed of two symmetric {P2W3(O2)3} cores connected by rare-earth cations. …”
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Study of Ce0.9Tb0.05Ln0.05O1.975 compounds as ceramic pigments by Šulcová P., Vitásková L., Trojan M.

“…Their colour properties were investigated depending on content of selected lanthanides and calcination temperature. All prepared pigments were applied into organic matrix and ceramic glaze. …”
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Nanotechnology and Tumor Imaging: Seizing an Opportunity by Daniel C. Sullivan, Mauro Ferrari

“…For example, many hundreds or thousands of atoms that provide imaging signals, such as radioisotopes, lanthanides, or fluorophores, can be attached to each nanoparticle, to form imaging agents that would provide higher sensitivity that can be obtained from agents based on small molecules. …”
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Functionalized epoxy resins for enhanced interface properties and corrosion resistance: Tailoring of surface and interface properties and performance by Chandrabhan Verma, Kyong Yop Rhee, Akram Alfantazi

“…Significant improvements in corrosion resistance have been demonstrated when epoxy resin coatings with inorganic (TiO2, CeO2, SiO2, Al2O3, h-BN, lanthanides, etc.) and organic (G, GO, CNTs, PANI, MXenes, MOFs, PDA, BIM, LDH, polymers, etc.) additives are used. …”
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Revisiting Near-infrared Features of Kilonovae: The Importance of Gadolinium by Salma Rahmouni, Masaomi Tanaka, Nanae Domoto, Daiji Kato, Kenta Hotokezaka, Wako Aoki, Teruyuki Hirano, Takayuki Kotani, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Motohide Tamura

“…Our analysis reveals that most candidate elements with strong absorption lines are lanthanides ( Z  = 57–71) and actinides ( Z  = 89–103). …”
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Chalcogenide perovskites: enticing prospects across a wide range of compositions and optoelectronic properties for stable photodetector devices by Shilpa Mariam Samuel, Sadasivan Shaji, David Avellaneda Avellaneda, Bindu Krishnan

“…These are unconventional semiconductors with the formula ABX _3 , where A and B are cations and X is a chalcogen, which covers the compounds with the corner sharing perovskite structures of type II-IV- VI _3 compounds (II = Ba, Sr, Ca, Eu; IV = Zr, Hf; VI = S, Se) and III _1 -III _2 -VI _3 compounds (III _1 and III _2 = Lanthanides, Y, Sc; VI = S, Se). The increased coordination and ionicity in these compounds contribute to their excellent charge transport properties and exceptionally high optical absorption coefficient (> 10 ^5 cm ^−1 ). …”
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