Artist's illustration of a lanthanide-doped nanoparticle (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Artist's illustration of a lanthanide-doped nanoparticle

Caption

In this imaginative artwork, a lanthanide-doped nanoparticle takes the form of a spider and the web spun by the spider is made of 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid, an organic antenna designed to trap charge carriers and efficiently harvest elusive ‘dark’ molecular triplet excitons. 

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Zhongzheng Yu

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