Americium Trace Determination in Aqueous and Solid Matrices by Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Fluorescence

Examination of Structure and Bonding in 10-Coordinate Europium and Americium Terpyridyl Complexes

“…The optical properties of Am1 are consistent with other Am III compounds that possess bound water molecules in that it decays in a nonradiative manner. While Am III compounds can exhibit photoluminescence at near 650 nm, this energy is close enough to that of the overtones of water that energy loss becomes entirely nonradiative . The absorbance of each compound was also measured on single crystals.…”

Americium(iii) and europium(iii) complex formation with lactate at elevated temperatures studied by spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations

“…16,17 The application of TRLFS onto Am(III) complexation was up to now limited because of its much lower luminescence intensity and much shorter lifetime in comparison to Cm(III) or Eu(III). Some publications about TRLFS with Am(III) at ambient [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] or low temperatures 22 exist, but no studies at elevated temperatures have been published until now. Some structural suggestions for the Eu(III) lactate, which do exist are only assumptions from indirect methods.…”

Structural characterization of Am incorporated into calcite: A TRLFS and EXAFS study

“…The application of TRLFS to studying Am(III) is limited because of the much lower fluorescence intensity and much shorter lifetime of the Am(III) fluorescence emission in comparison to the Cm(III) emission. Nevertheless, the emission of the Am(III) 5 D 0 → 7 F 1 transition was used for speciation studies of americium in aqueous solution [14][15][16][17]. Emission spectra of Am(III) incorporated into solid phases have been published by Thouvenot et al [16] and Hubert et al [18].…”