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Project: Gels with innovative optical, magnetic and electrochemical properties

Acronym: Gels
Main Objective:
The main goal of the project is the study of relevant physical properties of new hybrid xerogels (doped with lanthanide or ferromagnetic ions). Those sol-gel derived materials, based on oxyethylene units grafted onto silica networks by urea and urethane cross-links, are efficient white light emitters due to the convolution of a long-lived emission originated in the NH groups of the urea or urethane bridges with shorter-lived electron-hole recombinations occurring in the nanometer-sized siliceous clusters. This feature will be exploited to obtain efficient white-light hybrids.
Reference: POCTI/CTM/33653/99
Funding: FCT/POSI
Start Date: 01-01-2001
End Date: 31-07-2004
Team: Luís Joaquim Alcácer
Groups: Organic Electronics – Lx
Partners:
Local Coordinator: Luís Joaquim Alcácer

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