Lanthanide benzoates: a versatile building block for the construction of efficient light emitting materials
Abstract
On account of their intrinsic chemical and spectroscopic properties, luminescent lanthanide molecular materials find potential applications in lighting, optical communications, photonics and biomedical devices. This perspective article summarizes some recent seminal research work on luminescent properties and structural aspects of a series of lanthanide benzoate complexes featuring Eu3+ and Tb3+ ions. In particular, when modified with light-harvesting moieties,