DOI: 10.1039/d6dt01662f ISSN: 1477-9226

Post-synthetic lanthanide chelation enables radioluminescence in robust nanoscale MOFs

Megan J. Neufeld, Elani Cabrera-Vega, Aireth LaVigne, Eunseo Choi, Yulan Ren, Theresa M. McCormick, Andrea M. Goforth, Guillem Pratx, Conroy Sun

Post-synthetic Eu 3+ and Tb 3+ chelation introduces lanthanide-centered radioluminescence into robust UiO-66-(COOH) 2 nanoparticles, enabling concentration-dependent XEOL imaging.