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Luminescent Properties of Composite Materials Based on Porous Glasses Activated by Silver and Lanthanum

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Composite materials (CMs) based on matrices of high-silica nanoporous glasses activated by silver and lanthanum are synthesized. It is established that, depending on the composition, the CM samples exhibit luminescence in the UV, violet-blue, green, red, and infrared spectral ranges due to the presence of isolated Ag+-ions, Ag+–Ag+ paired centers, molecular clusters (MCs) and nanoparticles (NPs) of silver, and oxygen vacancies in La2O3, together with various silicon defect centers.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education of the Russian Federation as part of the IChS RAS state assignment (project FFEM-2022-0004).

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Girsova, M.A., Kurilenko, L.N., Anfimova, I.N. et al. Luminescent Properties of Composite Materials Based on Porous Glasses Activated by Silver and Lanthanum. Glass Phys Chem 49, 557–563 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1087659623600709

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