Usually multiphoton harvesting property exhibited by the organic molecules in the solution, is quenched in the solid state due to aggregation. However, efficiently luminescent materials in the solid-state form are highly preferable in many photonic applications such as upconversion lasing and light emission due to a higher resistant to photobleaching. By rational choice of ligands with high second hyperpolarizability, MOFs with large nonlinear optical response (up to direct absorption of four photons at 1500 nm) has been reported for the first time by Hong Sheng Quah, Weiqiang Chen, Martin K. Schreyer, Hui Yang, Ming Wah Wong, Wei Ji, and Jagadese J. Vittal in the recent issue of Nature Communications (Vol. 6, Article No. 7954, 2015, doi:10.1038/ncomms8954).
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