Affiliation:
1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering North Carolina State University 911 Partners Way Raleigh NC-27606 USA
2. Department of Chemistry University of Missouri 125 Chemistry Building Columbia MO-65211 USA
3. Department of Chemistry Drake University 2802 Forest Ave Des Moines IA-50311 USA
Abstract
AbstractLanthanoid carboxylates were synthesized and in situ self‐assembled to illustrate temperature‐driven evolution in chromaticity. Evolution in structure (crystallinity), composition, luminosity, and chromaticity were investigated revealing the coupled role of divergence in order/structure (spatial organization), and composition in tuning observed color. Loss of crystallinity or increase in residual carbon leads to decrease in luminosity even with increase in hue. Comparing Ho and Er congeners shows that the density of accessible transition states relates to shifts in low and high wavelength components of color. This work demonstrates that, just as interface dipoles can lead to change in semiconductor band gap, structure and composition can analogously alter observed color.