title: Probing the magnetic anisotropy of lanthanide-containing metallomesogens by luminescence spectroscopy.
abstract: The alignment of liquid crystals through magnetism demands a high value of the magnetic anisotropy. The magnitude of the anisotropy for a series of isostructural lanthanide-containing metallomesogens can be estimated on basis of the crystal-field splitting of the (7)F1 multiplet in the corresponding europium(III) compounds. A method to rapidly measure this splitting value is accessible through photoluminescence measurements.
authors.affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Chemistry, Leuven, Belgium. Koen.Binnemans@chem.kuleuven.ac.be
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