Liquid-Phase Epitaxy Effective Encapsulation of Lanthanide Coordination Compounds into MOF Film with Homogeneous and Tunable White-Light Emission

As a new family of hybrid inorganic–organic materials with large porosity, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have received attractive attention recently on encapsulating functional guest species. Although the encapsulation of luminescent guest into bulk MOFs can tune the luminescent property, the powder composite materials are limited to the application in optical sensors and devices. In the present work, we use a modified liquid-phase epitaxial (LPE) pump method for the fabrication of lanthanide coordination compounds (LCCs)-encapsulated MOF thin film on substrate with high encapsulation efficiency. The resultant composite film reveals an oriented and homogeneous composite film, in which a white light emission by tuning the LCCs of red, blue and green emission can be obtained. This strategy may open new perspectives for developing high-encapsulation-efficiency, oriented, and homogeneous solid-state lighting composite films in the application of optical sensors and devices.