“…To overcome this catastrophe, an organic moiety with a significant absorption coefficient such as β-ketoacids, β-hydroxy ketones, and β-diketones was employed to sensitize the lanthanides by the 'Antenna effect' [7,8]. All these chromophores are meritorious light-harvesting which populate the emitting level of metal ions to a large extent and shield the lanthanide emission from the catastrophic effect of non-radiative decay [9]. From the perspective of ligands, the introduction of electron-donating ancillary ligands such as 2,2′-bipyridyl (bipy), 1,10-phenanthroline (phen), bathophenanthroline (batho), 5,6-Dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline (dmph) and neocuproine (neo) having a synergic effect with prime organic ligand and a significant increase in luminescence was observed [10,11].…”