Modern Luminescence from Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications: Volume Two: Luminescence in Materials is part of a multivolume work that reviews the fundamental principles, properties and applications of luminescent materials. Topics addressed include 1) The key concepts of luminescence with a focus on important characterization techniques to understand a wide category of luminescent materials, 2) The most relevant luminescent materials categories, including both current and emerging materials, and 3) The applications of luminescent materials in biomedicine, solid state devices, and the development of hybrid materials.

This updated volume reviews the most relevant luminescent materials, including transition metals, rare-earth materials, actinide-based materials, and organic materials. In addition, the book reviews luminescence mechanisms in relevant, emerging materials and the optical techniques used to characterize these materials.

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Quantum confine Materials and Luminescence: Inorganic Quantum dots 2. Applications of luminescence in quantum dot-based nanostructures 3. Photonics of carbon nanorods 4. Luminescence in metal clusters 5. Luminescence in doped materials

Unit 2: Rare-earth elements 5. Energetics and Spectroscopic properties of lanthanides-based systems 6. Rare earth spectroscopy and nanomaterials 7. Lanthanide doped Matrices and persistent luminescence 8. Doped Fluoride matrices and luminescence enhancement 9. Luminescence characteristics in Ln- based organic frameworks

Unit 3: Actinides 10. Capitalizing Optical signals in Actinide based materials 11. Applications of luminescence in radioactive materials

Unit 4: Organics 12. Photochemistry and Physics of organic molecules 13. Quantum Confined organic materials 14. Applications of luminescence in organic molecules 15. Bioluminescence

Unit 5: Experimental Techniques 16. Spectroscopic Instrumentation II