Recent advances in lanthanide luminescence with metal-organic chromophores as sensitizers

• Recent advances in lanthanide luminescence of heteronuclear arrays are reviewed.
• Metal-organic chromphores act as light-harvesting sensitizers.
• Lanthanide luminescence is sensitized through intercomponent energy transfer.
• Heteronuclear assemblies exhibit various colored visible or NIR luminescence.
• Bright white light can be achieved due to dual emission of heteronuclear systems.

This review article focuses on recent advances in sensitized lanthanide luminescence from heteronuclear complexes with metal-organic chromophores as light-harvesting sensitizer through intercomponent energy transfer. Depending on the ligands and the metal ions, p–f, d–f and f–f heteronuclear assemblies exhibit various colored visible or NIR (near infrared) luminescence following energy transfer from metal-organic chromophores. When the emission of metal-organic sensitizer shows complementary color with the sensitized lanthanide luminescence, white light emitting is successfully generated by incomplete energy transfer to the lanthanide center.

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