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Architectures of YF3:Eu3+ solid and hollow sub-microspheres: a facile arginine-assisted hydrothermal synthesis and luminescence properties

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Solid and hollow YF3:Eu3+ spheres assembled by nanorods have been successfully synthesized via a facile arginine-assisted hydrothermal method and followed by a subsequent heat-treatment process. The experimental results reveal that the as-prepared YF3:Eu3+ spheres are composed of the nanorods with a diameter of 20–50 nm and a length of 200–500 nm, the morphologies of YF3:Eu3+ have been changed from solid to hollow spheres assembled by nanorods. With increase of hydrothermal temperature and time, the diameter of YF3:Eu3+ spheres can be controlled from 300 to 800 nm. The solid and hollow spheres show an intense orange red emission peak near 595 nm, corresponding to the 5D0 → 7F1 transition of Eu3+. The possible formation mechanism for the hollow spheres has been presented in detail. This amine acid-assisted method is very simple, economic and environmental friendly for organic-free solvent, which would be potentially used in synthesizing other hollow materials.

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This work was financially supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC 51072026, 40675083) and the Science and Technology Development Planning Project of Jilin Province (grant No. 20090528).

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    Guixia Liu, Xia Li, Xiangting Dong & Jinxian Wang

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Liu, G., Li, X., Dong, X. et al. Architectures of YF3:Eu3+ solid and hollow sub-microspheres: a facile arginine-assisted hydrothermal synthesis and luminescence properties. J Nanopart Res 13, 4025–4034 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0332-0

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