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A light triggered optical and chiroptical switch based on a homochiral Eu2L3 helicate

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Luminescent Eu(III)-based Coordination Polymers for Photonic Materials

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Modulating Magnetoelectric Dipole by Salt‐Bridge Hydrogen Bonds Assembly to Amplify Circularly Polarized Luminescence

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Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence by Confining Dye Molecules within Chiral Layered Metal–Organic Framework

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Chiroptical Cellulose Nanocrystal-Based Circularly Polarized Reflector and Filter for the Chiral Regulation of Photoresponsive Supramolecular Polymers

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Self-Assembly of a Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Based on Silver and Lanthanide Tetrakis-Acylpyrazolonates: An Efficient New Strategy for Suppressing Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer Quenching of Europium Luminescence

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Synthetic strategies towards chiral coordination polymers

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Dispersion control by using a bulky surfactant medium in the LB films for the enhancement of linearly polarized luminescence of Eu complexes

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Circularly polarized luminescence of lanthanide complexes: From isolated individuals, discrete oligomers, to hierarchical assemblies

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Research Progress of Rare Earth-Based Circularly Polarized Luminescent Materials

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Chiral lanthanide lumino-glass for a circularly polarized light security device

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Luminescence of lanthanide complexes: From fundamental to prospective approaches related to water- and molecular-stimuli

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Chiroptical Spectroscopic Studies on Lanthanide Complexes with Valinamide Derivatives in Solution

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Hollow Superhelices Based on Chiral Europium Coordination Polymers

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Metal-organic materials with circularly polarized luminescence

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Photofunctionalized Europium(III) complexes with circularly polarized luminescence

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Coordination Polymers from 2-Chloroterephthalate Linkers: Synthesis, Structural Diversity, and Catalytic CO2 Fixation

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Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks with a Europium(III) Complex as an Emitter

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Homochiral Zn(Ⅱ) coordination polymers with helixes constructed from semirigid lactate deriatives for circular polarization luminescence and fluorescent prober

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Visible Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Octanuclear Circular Eu(III) Helicate

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Enhancing the Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Europium Coordination Polymers by Doping a Chromophore Ligand into Superhelices

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New horizons in phosphorus-based emitters: From circularly polarized fluorescence to room-temperature phosphorescence

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Circularly polarized red luminescence based on new enantiopure menthol-functionalized tris-β-diketonate-Eu3+ binary complexes

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Asymmetric Eu(III) Coordination Polymers Featuring Coexisting Δ/Λ Chirality and Diverse Coordination Geometries

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Enhancement of Circularly Polarized Luminescence Brightness of Schiff‐Base Diphenylboron and 9‐Borafluoren‐9‐yl Complexes

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ChemPhotoChem, 2024, 8
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Perspectives and challenges in circularly polarized luminescence of lanthanide(III) complexes: From solution-based systems to solid-state applications

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Dinuclear Triple‐Stranded Helicates Composed of Tetradentate Ligands with Aluminum(III) Chromophores: Optical Resolution and Multi‐color Circularly Polarized Luminescence Properties

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Modulating Magnetoelectric Dipole by Salt‐Bridge Hydrogen Bonds Assembly to Amplify Circularly Polarized Luminescence

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Angewandte Chemie, 2026
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Asymmetric Lumino-Transformer: Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Chiral Eu(III) Coordination Polymer with Phase-Transition Behavior

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Thin-film formation for promoting the potential of luminescent lanthanide coordination complexes

Miki Hasegawa and Ayumi Ishii

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020, 421, 213458
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Amorphous lanthanide complexes for organic luminescent materials

Joe Hayashi, Sunao Shoji, Yuichi Kitagawa and Yasuchika Hasegawa

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Chiral scintillator based on Zn-Tb complexes exhibiting strong circularly polarized radioluminescence and high-resolution X-ray imaging

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Strong Magnetically‐Responsive Circularly Polarized Phosphorescence and X‐Ray Scintillation in Ultrarobust Mn(II)–Organic Helical Chains

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Steric and Electronic Control of Chiral Eu(III) Complexes for Effective Circularly Polarized Luminescence

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ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 3786
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