Bringing upconversion down to the molecular scale

Authors :: Loïc J. Charbonnière
Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC)
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :: Dalton Transactions, Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, 47 (26), pp.8566-8570. ⟨10.1039/c7dt04737a⟩
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018.
Abstract: International audience; After solid state and nanoparticles, discrete molecular and supramolecular systems displaying upconversion (UC) in solution have recently emerged in the literature. This frontier article intends to recall the roots of molecular UC and will try to draw perspectives to improve the actual state of the art.