2011
DOI: 10.1039/c0nj00969e
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Rare earths: jewels for functional materials of the future

Abstract: In recent decades, rare earths have become vital to a wealth of advanced materials and technologies including catalysts, alloys, magnets, optics and lasers, rechargeable hydride batteries, electronics, economical lighting, wind-and solar-energy conversion, bio-analyses and imaging. In this perspective article we give a broad overview of rare earth resources and uses first and then of selected applications in dedicated fields such as telecommunications, lasers, photovoltaics (solar-energy conversion), lighting … Show more

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“…Each day we use at least one object containing lanthanides, like the cellphone or the credit card. Since the beginning of the 19th there seems to be an endless love story between the rare earths (Y, Sc, Ln) and the lighting applications [1]. Seen that the lanthanides are systems with lots of electrons and the first group of atoms containing f orbitals, they react different than the other groups.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Each day we use at least one object containing lanthanides, like the cellphone or the credit card. Since the beginning of the 19th there seems to be an endless love story between the rare earths (Y, Sc, Ln) and the lighting applications [1]. Seen that the lanthanides are systems with lots of electrons and the first group of atoms containing f orbitals, they react different than the other groups.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1 Diante de tantas aplicações, as propriedades luminescentes são de suma importância, a utilização em pequenas quantidades como ativadores ou dopantes em matrizes hospedeiras, preservam suas características espectroscópicas, tais como: tempo de vida na ordem de milissegundos, finas bandas de emissão e grande deslocamento Stokes. ) com níveis de menor energia, resultando na amplificação da luminescência, [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] a importância do uso do íon Bi 3+ tem sido mostrado na literatura como bom sensibilizador para a matriz YVO 4 .…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…В последние десятилетия редкозе-мельные металлы (РЗМ) становятся необходимыми для создания усовер-шенствованных материалов и техноло-гий с использованием катализаторов, сплавов, магнитов, оптики и лазеров, перезаряжаемых гидридных аккуму-ляторов, электроники, экономичного освещения, конверсии ветряной и сол-нечной энергии, биоанализа и модели-рования [1].…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…In recent decades the rare earth metals (REM) are required for creating of advanced materials and technologies using catalysts, alloys, magnets, optics and lasers, rechargeable hydride batteries, electronics, efficient lighting, conversion to wind and solar energy, bio-analysis and modeling [1].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%