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BiPO4:Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Tb, Eu/Tb) nanorods: Room-temperature synthesis, reaction mechanism, and color-tunable emission

Ln3+ (LnEu, Tb, Eu/Tb) doping hexagonal BiPO4 nanorods were synthesized by a room-temperature co-precipitation method using ethylene glycol as solvent. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), thermal gravimetric (TG), and photoluminescence spec...

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Published in:Journal of alloys and compounds 2022-02, Vol.893, p.162314, Article 162314
Main Authors: Wang, Junyan, Luo, Nianhua, Peng, Siyan, Yang, Liusai, Zhao, Minglei
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Language:English
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Summary:Ln3+ (LnEu, Tb, Eu/Tb) doping hexagonal BiPO4 nanorods were synthesized by a room-temperature co-precipitation method using ethylene glycol as solvent. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), thermal gravimetric (TG), and photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) were utilized to investigate the structure, morphology, surface chemistry, and fluorescence performance of the obtained phosphors, respectively. The results showed that hexagonal phase of BiPO4 formed at room temperature, which consisted almost entirely of nanorods with an average diameter of 70 nm and an average length of 292 nm. The chemical reactions mechanism was well elucidated. Under short-wavelength UV light excitation, the as-obtained BiPO4:Eu3+ and BiPO4:Tb3+ samples exhibited strong orange-red and green emissions, respectively. Moreover, the photoluminescence color could be tuned from red, orange, yellow, and green-yellow, to green by simply adjusting the relative doping concentrations of Tb3+ and Eu3+ ions. The room-temperature synthesis reported in the present study could be extended to prepare other rare-earth doped inorganic luminescent materials. The photoluminescence color of hexagonal BiPO4 nanorods can be tuned from red, orange, yellow, and green-yellow, to green by simply adjusting the relative doping concentrations of the Tb3+ and Eu3+ ions. [Display omitted] •Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Tb, Eu/Tb) doping hexagonal BiPO4 nanorods were synthesized by a room-temperature co-precipitation method.•The chemical reactions mechanism was well elucidated.•The total mass loss of Bi0.95Eu0.05PO4 was about 3.4 wt%, which could be denoted as BiPO4:Eu·0.6H2O.•The photoluminescence color could be tuned from red, orange, yellow, and green-yellow, to green.
ISSN:0925-8388
1873-4669
DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162314