“…In brief, 1 mg finely ground Eu-mtb powders were dispersed into aqueous solutions of Cr 2 O 7 2-(2 ml) with various concentrations, which were then treated by ultrasonication to form a homogenous suspension before fluorescence measurement. As shown in Supplementary Figure S16 6C) (Hao and Yan, 2016;Lin et al, 2017;Jin et al, 2018;Xiao et al, 2018;Abdollahi and Morsali, 2019;Liu et al, 2019;Mi et al, 2019;Wiwasuku et al, 2019;Guo et al, 2020;Qiu et al, 2021) In order to explore the possible mechanism of the fluorescence quenching from the Eu-mtb MMM (70 wt%) induced by Cr 2 O 7 2− , UV-vis spectra of aqueous solutions of various anions and cations were investigated. As shown in Figure 7, it is notable that the excitation peak of Eu-mtb is partially overlapped by the strong absorption of Cr 2 O 7 2− , resulting in the inner filter effect (IFE) (Mi et al, 2019;Guo et al, 2020).…”