Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170101895

Funded Activity Summary

Illuminating hidden processes in emissive lanthanoid complexes. This project aims to understand the antenna effect used to sensitise lanthanoid luminescence. Despite their use in modern high-tech applications, from optical fibre amplifiers (telecommunications) to luminescent probes and sensors (biological imaging), understanding is largely based on speculation or generalised 'rules-of-thumb', severely limiting progress in the field. This project will research these processes, using chemical synthesis, theory and spectroscopic techniques. This is expected to lead to new emissive lanthanoid-based compounds using 'a priori' approaches, with better performance than current gold standards and references. Intellectual property created will lead to new commercial products, and to creation of new Australian based spin-off/start-up companies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-03-2017

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $474,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications | Inorganic Chemistry | Immunological and Bioassay Methods | F-Block Chemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | F-Block Chemistry | Immunological and Bioassay Methods | Inorganic Chemistry | Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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