1 State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, China. hongjie@ciac.ac.cn.
2 Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. hongjie@ciac.ac.cn.
3 Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, P. O. Box 94157, 1090 GD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. h.zhang@uva.nl.
This special issue covers a series of cutting-edge works on exploring novel rare earth luminescent materials and their applications in lighting, display, information storage, sensing, and bioimaging as well as therapy.