Objective
In over 40 years of worldwide independent research it has been proved that the light therapy delivers powerful therapeutic benefits to living tissues and organisms. RED-NIR-light photobiostimulation represents an innovative and noninvasive therapeutic approach for the treatment tissue injuries or skin cancers. The light sources currently used in a medical treatment are large and the therapy requires lengthy hospital visits. Therefore, manufacturing of a portable light source, cheap, efficient, easy to use, comfortable and available to patients in their homes, would be a very important improvement. Such light source’s requirements are fulfilled by the small, light and flexible OLEDs, being the subject of the present project.
Efficient and stable OLED devices operating in RED and NIR spectral regions are not currently available. In this framework lanthanides complexes with organic ligands represent very promising RED and NIR emitters for application in electroluminescent devices. The sensitization of the Ln(III) luminescence in the NIR region is, however, more difficult than in visible and deactivation of the excited states by the vibrations of the ligands and/or solvent molecules are much more rapid.
With this background the present project will focus on design, synthesis, photophysical and electro-optical characterization and device testing of novel efficient RED-NIR emitters based on lanthanide complexes, attached to the polymer backbone, bearing organic ligands or Iridium complexes, acting as sensitizers of lanthanide emission. These studies are expected to enable the development of the prototype, flexible, inexpensive and portable OLEDs, based on the multiply doped single emissive layers, as light sources for the low-cost medical phototreatment. Additionally the project also aims to contribute an advance in the fundamental knowledge of processes occuring in Ln(III) based emitters and their behaviour in electroluminescent devices.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology skin cancer
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry transition metals
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
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FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
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20126 Milano
Italy
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