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Hollow spherical rare-earth-doped yttrium oxysulfate: A novel structure for upconversion

Show Author's Information Gen Chen1,2,  Fashen Chen1,  Xiaohe Liu1( ),  Wei Ma1,  Hongmei Luo2,  Junhui Li3( ),  Renzhi Ma4,  Guanzhou Qiu1
Department of Inorganic Materials School of Resources Processing and Bioengineering Central South University Changsha Hunan 410083 China
Department of Chemical Engineering New Mexico State University Las Cruces New Mexico 88003 USA
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing School of Mechanical and Electronical Engineering Central South University Changsha Hunan 410083 China
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Namiki 1-1 Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
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Upconversion, Hydrothermal, Hollow sphere, Ostwald ripening, Y2O2SO4
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Chen G, Chen F, Liu X, et al. Hollow spherical rare-earth-doped yttrium oxysulfate: A novel structure for upconversion. Nano Research, 2014, 7(8): 1093-1102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0472-5
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A facile biomolecule-assisted hydrothermal route followed by calcination has been employed for the preparation of monoclinic yttrium oxysulfate hollow spheres doped with other rare-earth ions (Yb3+ and Eu3+ or Er3+). The formation of hollow spheres may involve Ostwald ripening. The resulting hybrid materials were used for upconversion applications. The host crystal structure allows the easy co-doping of two different rare-earth metal ions without significantly changing the host lattice. The luminescent properties were affected by the ratio and concentration of dopant rare-earth metal ions due to energy transfer and the symmetry of the crystal field. The type of luminescent center and the crystallinity of samples were also shown to have a significant influence on the optical properties of the as-prepared products.


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Hollow spherical rare-earth-doped yttrium oxysulfate: A novel structure for upconversion

Show Author's information Gen Chen1,2, Fashen Chen1, Xiaohe Liu1( ), Wei Ma1, Hongmei Luo2, Junhui Li3( ), Renzhi Ma4, Guanzhou Qiu1
Department of Inorganic Materials School of Resources Processing and Bioengineering Central South University Changsha Hunan 410083 China
Department of Chemical Engineering New Mexico State University Las Cruces New Mexico 88003 USA
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing School of Mechanical and Electronical Engineering Central South University Changsha Hunan 410083 China
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Namiki 1-1 Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan

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A facile biomolecule-assisted hydrothermal route followed by calcination has been employed for the preparation of monoclinic yttrium oxysulfate hollow spheres doped with other rare-earth ions (Yb3+ and Eu3+ or Er3+). The formation of hollow spheres may involve Ostwald ripening. The resulting hybrid materials were used for upconversion applications. The host crystal structure allows the easy co-doping of two different rare-earth metal ions without significantly changing the host lattice. The luminescent properties were affected by the ratio and concentration of dopant rare-earth metal ions due to energy transfer and the symmetry of the crystal field. The type of luminescent center and the crystallinity of samples were also shown to have a significant influence on the optical properties of the as-prepared products.

Keywords: Upconversion, Hydrothermal, Hollow sphere, Ostwald ripening, Y2O2SO4

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Received: 20 December 2013
Revised: 08 April 2014
Accepted: 10 April 2014
Published: 09 June 2014
Issue date: August 2014

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51372279), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 13JJ1005) and the Shenghua Scholar Program of Central South University. We also acknowledge the office of the Vice-President for Research at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The authors thank Dr. Zhiyong Mao for the PL measurements.

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