<p>A contaminação por metais pesados em vários ambientes é um evento que ganhou importância ao ser estudado em razão dos riscos gerados em geral, aos corpos. E para remediar ou minimizar esses riscos são necessários conhecimentos precisos desses poluentes e seus efeitos nesses ambientes e organismos que podem ser usados como indicadores dessa degradação ambiental. Neste trabalho, propusemos uma revisão da literatura sobre como ocorreu na poluição de metais pesados e os estudos que foram realizados para avaliar as fontes de contaminação em diferentes tipos de ambientes, os fatores que influenciam a absorção desses elementos tóxicos, seus efeitos sobre as plantas. e governando como esses efeitos.</p>
In this work, the combination of three different thermal lens spectroscopic methodologies was used to better determine the fluorescence quantum yield and to observe the concentration quenching in Yb 3þdoped binary tellurite glasses (in mol%, 80TeO 2 e 20Li 2 O and 80TeO 2 e 20WO 3). The samples were synthesized by the conventional melt-quenching method and then studied using optical spectroscopy and thermal lens spectroscopy (TLS). These characterizations enabled investigation of the radiative and nonradiative processes involved in the ytterbium doped systems. High fluorescence quantum yield was obtained for low Yb 3þ doping (>90%), and in both glasses the Yb 3þ presented concentration quenching mainly caused by impurities, host-ion interaction and OH À vibrations. The observations suggested that there is a possibility of doping the glasses with higher Yb concentration (>1.6 Â 10 21 ions/cm 3) with low reduction of the quantum yield.
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