Natural hackmanite paper spreads everywhere

It seems that the natural hackmanite article published in Chemistry of Materials has spread wider than we could ever imagine. It has now been found in 17 different sources from 5 different language regions throughout the world, and there will probably be even more during the coming months.

Check the links from this list:

https://inorganic.utu.fi/about-us-in-other-media/

IMC’s hackmanite research gets country-wide attention in two major newspapers

We wrote a press release based on our hackmanite research article in the high-impact Chemistry of Materials journal. The news was published on University of Turku’s website, and it spread instantly to Finland’s biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and also to a Turku-based newspaper Aamuset:

Tutkijat selvittivät, miksi luonnonkivi loistaa pimeässä – Hackmaniitin ytimessä hehkuu titaaniHelsingin Sanomat 23/10/2020

Pimeässä loistavan luonnonkiven salaisuus selvisi tuoreessa tutkimuksessaAamuset 23/10/2020

Congratulations Cecilia and Sami!

The first paper for Cecilia and Sami was just accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials. The paper is entitled “Hackmanite – the natural glow-in-the-dark material” and it will be published soon in open access.

Great work from Cecilia, Sami and the truly multidisciplinary international collaborator group!

Photo by Adefunke Koyejo.

Two new collaboration publications about glasses

Check out these two new collaboration publicatoins about persistent luminescence in glass materials.

Ojha, N., Trautvetter, T., Norrbo, I., Kallide, A., Lastusaari, M., Mueller, R., and Petit, L. “Sintered silica bodies with persistent luminescence” Scripta Mater. 166 (2019) 15-18.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.02.044

Szczodra, A., Kuusela, L., Norrbo, I., Mardoukhi, A., Hokka, M., Lastusaari, M., Petit, L., “Successful preparation of fluorine containing glasses with persistent luminescence using the direct doping method” J. Alloy Compd. 787 (2019) 1260-1264.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.02.075

New publication and a heads up for the spring

Newest publication from the metal-organic part of our group can be found below.

In addition to the publications, for this spring we have two incoming dissertations. Emilia has her dissertation in April and Isabella in May, so don’t miss out!

Salonen, P., Peuronen, A., Sinkkonen, J., and Lehtonen, A. “Oxidovanadium(v) complexes with L-proline-based amino acid phenolates” Inorg. Chim. Acta 489 (2019) 108-114.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2019.02.011

New publications

Some new publications added into the year 2019! You can choose to read about oxovanadium complexes or if you’re more interested in luminescent materals you can choose between clays and glass materials.

Ojha, N., Tuomisto, M., Lastusaari, M., and Petit, L. “Phosphate glasses with blue persistent luminescence prepared using the direct doping methods” Opt. Mater. 87 (2019) 151-156.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2018.03.063

Santos, H.S., Laihinen, T., Rodrigues, L.C.V., Sinkkonen, J., Mäkilä, E., Damlin, P., Nakamura, L.K.O., Brito, H.F., Hölsä, J., and Lastusaari, M., “Red- and green-emitting nano-clay materials doped with Eu3+ and/or Tb3+Luminescence 1 (2019) 23-38.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bio.3561

Sobhanadhas, L.S., Kesavan, L., Lastusaari, M., and Fardim, P., “Layered Double Hydroxide-Cellulose Hybrid Beads: A Novel Catalyst for Topochemical Grafting of Pulp Fibers” ACS Omega 4 (2019) 320-330.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b03061

Hossain, M.K., Haukka, M., Lisensky, G.C., Lehtonen, A., and Nordlander, E. “Oxovanadium(V) complexes with tripodal bisphenolate and monophenolate ligands: Syntheses, structures and catalytic activities” Inorg. Chim. Acta 487 (2019) 112-119.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2018.11.049

New publication about restraining fluoride loss from upconverting fluoride nanoparticles

Check out the latest publication about the surface modifications of upconversion nanoparticles using polyelectrolyte multilayers and how we aim to prevent the nanoparticle disintegration in aqueous environments.

Palo, E., Salomäki, M., and Lastusaari, M., “Restraining fluoride loss from NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ upconverting nanoparticles in aqueous environments using crosslinked poly(acrylic acid)/poly(allylamine hydrochloride) multilayers” J Colloid Interface Sci. 538 (2019) 320-326.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2018.11.094

New collaboration publication about warm-light LED materials

Check out the new collaboration publication about microwave-assisted synthesis of Ti-doped rare-earth oxysulfides for warm-light LED materials.

Carvalho, J.M., Pedroso, C.C.S., Machado, I.P., Hölsä, J., Rodrigues, L.C.V., Głuchowski, P., Lastusaari, M., and Brito, H.F. “Persistent luminescence warm-light LEDs based on Ti-doped RE2O2S materials prepared by rapid and energy-saving microwave-assisted synthesis” J. Mater. Chem. C 6 (2018) 8897-8905.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8TC01826J

Publication: Shielding upconverting nanoparticles with layer-by-layer method

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