Check out our latest publication about upconverting nanoparticles and their shielding in aqueous environments from the link below.
Palo, E., Lahtinen, S., Päkkilä, H., Salomäki, M., Soukka, T., and Lastusaari, M., “Effective Shielding of NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ Upconverting Nanoparticles in Aqueous Environments Using Layer-by-Layer Assembly” Langmuir 34 (2018) 7759-7766.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00869
Check out our recent collaboration publications about tungsten complexes and microwave-assisted hackmanite synthesis.
Carvalho, J.M., Norrbo, I., Ando, R.A., Brito, H.F., Fantini, M.C.A., and Lastusaari, M., “Fast, low-cost preparation of hackmanite minerals with reversible photochromic behavior using a microwave-assisted structure-conversion method” Chem. Commun. 54 (2018) 7326-7329.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8CC03033B
Hossain, K., Haukka, M., Hänninen, M.M., Lisensky, G.C., Paturi, P., Ebbe, N., and Lehtonen, A.. “An experimental and theoretical study of a heptacoordinated tungsten(VI) complex of a noninnocent phenylenediamine bis(phenolate) ligand” Inorg. Chem. Commun. 93 (2018) 149-152.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inoche.2018.05.023
Variety of news covers the development of new hackmanite based SensoGlow material that can be used in detecting UV exposure on their www pages. Unfortunately most of them are only in Finnish.
Tutkijat kehittivät säteilyä mittaavan materiaalin – UV-altistusta voi kohta seurata kännykkä-appsilla (Only in Finnish) Turun Sanomat (www TS+) (17.5.2018)
University of Turku News announcements about the topic:
Uusi materiaali tunnistaa helposti UV-säteilyn määrän – mahdollisuus seurata omaa altistumista (Only in Finnish) (16.5.2018)
and the same in English
New Material Detects the Amount of UV Radiation and Helps Monitor Radiation Dose (22.5.2018)
Same news is also featured in other chemistry and physics related pages such as phys.org and sciencenewsline.com
Below you can find a collection of our newest publications. They include detailed vibrational studies in complexes, collaboration concerning glass-ceramics and solar UV index determination using hackmanites.
Norrbo, I., Curutchet, A., Kuusisto, A., Mäkelä, J., Laukkanen, P., Paturi, P., Laihinen, T., Sinkkonen, J., Wetterskog, E., Mamedov, F., Le Bahers, T., and Lastusaari, M., “Solar UV index and UV dose determination with photochromic hackmanites: from the assessment of the fundamental properties to the device” Mater. Horizons 5 (2018) 569-576.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8MH00308D
Ojha, N., Laihinen, T., Salminen, T., Lastusaari, M., and Petit, L., “Influence of the phosphate glass melt on the corrosion of functional particles occurring during the preparation of glass-ceramics” Ceram. Int. 44 (2018), 11807-22811.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.03.267
Peuronen, A., Sillanpää, R., and Lehtonen, A., “The Syntheses and Vibrational Spectra of 16O‐ and 18O‐Enriched cis‐MO2 (M=Mo, W) Complexes”, ChemistrySelect 3 (2018) 3814-3818.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/slct.201800671
Emilia received a travel grant from Finnish Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Association FinTAC ry (www) for the 7th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress (www) held in Liverpool, United Kingdom on 26–30th of August. The grant was awarded to her at the FinTAC ry meeting in Tampere university of Technology by the chairman Prof. Vesa-Pekka Lehto (right) and M.Sc. (Tech.) Markus M. Hackspik. Congratulations, Emilia!
In addition, check out new collaboration publication about borosilicate glasses with persistent luminescence.
Del Cerro, P.R., Salminen, T., Lastusaari, M., and Petit, L., “Persistent luminescent borosilicate glasses using direct particles doping method”, Scripta Mater. 151 (2018) 38-41.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.03.034
Esko got funding for his PhD topic in “Near infra-red absorbing metal complexes and their use in solar energy” from Walter Ahlström foundation, Minnea got additional funding from Finnish Cultural Foundation into “Luminescent materials and perovskites in solar energy” and Emilia got funded by Vilho, Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä foundation. Congrats to all and keep doing the good job!
Walter Ahsltrömin säätiö apurahat (www)
Suomen kulttuurirahasto (www)
Väisälä apurahat 2017 (pdf)
Here are also some news about the Eskos funding, unfortunately only in Finnish.
University of Turku news (www)
Technology Academy of Finland (www)
We have the pleasure of hosting two laboratory interns, Dina and Shams, from Turku Vocational Institute. You can see them around in our laboratory for the next six weeks. Hopefully they find the stay and research with us interesting and useful!
Check out our new publication from the collaboration with Aalto university about ALD/MLD fabricated thin films with upconversion luminescence.
Giedraityte, Z., Tuomisto, M., Lastusaari, M., and Karppinen, M., “Three-and two-photon NIR-to-vis (Yb,Er) upconversion from ALD/MLD fabricated molecular hybrid thin films”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10 (2018) 8845–8852.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b19303
Another new publication concerns the decomposition of luminescent microparticles in glass melt and is a result from the collaboration with Tampere university of technology.
Ojha, N., Nguyen, H., Laihinen, T., Salminen, T., Lastusaari, M., and Petit, L., “Decomposition of persistent luminescent microparticles in corrosive phosphate glass melt”, Corros. Sci. 135 (2018) 207-214.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2018.02.050
The mystery of the glowing Bologna stone remains interesting through the years.
The Russel Society Newsletter included a piece about the Bologna stone and comments from Mika Lastusaari. March 2018, p. 26-29. (March 2018 – pdf)
Cecilia Degbe joined our group as a doctoral candidate strengthening our luminescence research. Welcome Cecilia!
