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