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Morphology and Optical Properties of SrWO4 Powders Synthesized by the Coprecipitation and Polymeric Precursor Methods

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Industries are technologically dependent of new materials with a high optical efficiency for the development of electrooptical devices. In particular, ceramic oxides have a wide potential to supply this technological demand, especially those belonging to the scheelite group. A well-known scheelite in the scientific community is the strontium tungstate (SrWO4) because of their typical luminescence emissions. In addition, the main parameters responsible for the changes of physicochemical properties of any material are crystalline structure, composition, surface chemistry, particle sizes, and shapes. These parameters can be directly affected by the synthesis methods as well as due to their experimental conditions. In this chapter it was reported the synthesis of SrWO4 powders by two distinct chemical routes (coprecipitation and polymeric precursor method), which were subsequently heat-treated at different temperatures in a resistive furnace and a microwave oven. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects induced by both synthesis methods and heat treatment conditions (conventional and microwave) on the morphological aspects and optical properties of SrWO4. The details on the structural rearrangement at long and short range were investigated by means of X-ray diffraction patterns, Raman spectra, and X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectra at the W L 3 -edge, respectively. Field emission-scanning electron microscopy was an essential technique in order to verify the shape and distribution of the particle system. The optical properties were based on measurements of ultraviolet-visible absorption spectra and photoluminescence spectra at room temperature. In principle, these results were correlated to reveal a better interpretation of experimental data at the atomic level, providing new insights on the morphological and optical properties of SrWO4 crystals. Particularly, the explanations on these properties were based on structural order-disorder effects, which will be analyzed and discussed with more details along this chapter.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the FAPESP (#2012/14004-5), CNPq, and CAPES/PNPD (20131475) for the financial support. We also thank the National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light (LNLS), Campinas, SP, Brazil, for the X-ray absorption near-edge structure measurements (XD04B-XAFS1 - 11883). Special thanks to Mr. Rorivaldo Camargo and Mrs. Madalena Turssi for operating the FE-SEM and XRD equipments, respectively.

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    Laécio Santos Cavalcante

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Sczancoski, J.C., Li, M.S., Mastelaro, V.R., Longo, E., Cavalcante, L.S. (2017). Morphology and Optical Properties of SrWO4 Powders Synthesized by the Coprecipitation and Polymeric Precursor Methods. In: Longo, E., La Porta, F. (eds) Recent Advances in Complex Functional Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53898-3_5

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