In this CrystEngComm Hot article highly uniform sodium rare-earth fluoride nanocrystals were found to demonstrate red, green, and blue up-conversion luminescence.
Read more about how Qibin Yang and colleagues at Xiangtan University did it, and to discover the various pills, rods, spheres, tubes, and plate shaped crystals they created.
High uniformity and monodispersity of sodium rare-earth fluoride nanocrystals: controllable synthesis, shape evolution and optical properties
Songjun Zeng, Guozhong Ren, Changfu Xu and Qibin Yang
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00325E , Paper
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