I am working on a topic of adding dopants to the enamel of porcelain in order to enable its fluorescence under UV light. The problem is that I can't seem to find any research leads. What would you advise me ?
Glass can be doped with several rare earth elements like Samarium, Cer, Europium, Terbium to achieve fluorescence. Probably the same can be used for enamel staining. Maybe even commercially available doped glass material can be ground up and mixed into enamel slurry?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1002072119307215
https://www.smart-elements.com/de/shop/samarium-3-doped-fluorescent-glass-bead-new/
There is a bunch of green fluorescent glasses that have been produced starting from the first centery https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouraline
Even if they contain Uranium, they are be shown to produce a radioactivity lower than natural one.
You should have a look, to the proceedings of the International Conference on Luminescence. There are plenty of funny luminescent materials : https://icl2023.sciencesconf.org
Dear Maryame,
There are plenty of inorganic luminescent materials, which could be used to make enamel of porcelain with fluorescent properties. You can check my web-homepage under PISA, where you will find many datasheets of inorganic luminophores. However, the enamel melt is highly alkaline in character and you can only choose those materials, whish are able to withstand these conditions, e.g. aluminates. Borates and silicates will likely dissolve in the molten glass.
All the best for your research, Thomas
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