Assembly, stabilities, and photophysical behaviors of highly efficient luminescent materials fabricated from a terbium complex doped silica/polymer hybrids

► Highly luminescent hybrids doped with a new β-diketonate Tb complex are assembled. ► PVP-Tb-L xerogel shows the longest lifetime (1.047 ms) and highest quantum efficiency (34.09%). ► The optimal combination of lanthanide complex and matrix has been filtrated.