Abstract
Micrometer sized HgMoO4 flowers formed by nanorods were prepared by a selected hydrothermal method using a mixture of ethanol and water as a reaction medium, which were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffractometer (XRD), FT-IR spectrometry, photoluminescence spectrometry, and UV–visible spectrometry. Results indicated that the micrometer sized flowers consisted of mercury molybdate nanorods, and the monoclinic wolframite-type structure of the flowers was confirmed by both XRD and FT-IR spectrometry. A blue shift of the photoluminescence peaks and a broadening of XRD peaks were observed, which increased with ethanol fraction in the reaction medium.
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The authors acknowledge the support from Shanghai Municipality Natural Science Foundation (09ZR1431200) and Shanghai Municipality Education Committee Foundation (10YZ182, 09ZZ196) and SLADP (J51504).
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Jia, RP., Zhang, YQ. Hydrothermal synthesis of micrometer sized HgMoO4 flowers formed by nanorods. J Nanopart Res 12, 2717–2721 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-010-9960-z
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