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Effects of tungsten source and tartrate additive on the microstructure and photoluminescence of hydrothermally crystallized ZnWO4

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Tungstate source and tartrate (Tar2−) additive were examined for their influences on the hydrothermal formation and characteristics of ZnWO4 nanocrystals. It was clearly shown that quasi-equiaxed nanocrystallites of ~ 50–100 nm in diameter and nanorods of ~ 40–50 nm in diameter and up to ~ 700 nm in length can be generated with (NH4)10W12O41·5H2O and K2WO4·2H2O as tungsten sources, respectively. Introducing Tar2− into the K2WO4·2H2O reaction system effectively transformed the primary crystallites of ZnWO4 from nanorods into quasi-equiaxed nanocrystals (~ 20–50 nm) and then nanoplates (thickness of ~ 20 nm, lateral size of ~ 200 nm) and, meanwhile, aggregated the crystallites into spheroidal clusters (~ 2–3 µm in diameter) with the increasing Tar2−/Zn2+ molar ratio up to ~ 2. Optical spectroscopy revealed that the ZnWO4 products exhibit broad-band photoluminescence (~ 425–700 nm) through 3T1u → 1A1g transition of the [WO6]6− ligand under short ultraviolet excitation and the nanorods show the best luminescence among all tested samples. Calcination at 500 °C may effectively remove the adsorbed Tar2− species and greatly improve luminescence of the samples synthesized in the presence of Tar2−.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51672039 and 51972047). Mei-Ting Li acknowledges the financial support from the China Scholarship Council for her Ph.D. Study in Japan (Contract No. 201706080059).

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  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Ceramics and Powder Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Mei-Ting Li & Qi Zhu

  3. Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan

    Mei-Ting Li, Ji-Guang Li, Qi Zhu & Byung-Nam Kim

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Li, MT., Li, JG., Zhu, Q. et al. Effects of tungsten source and tartrate additive on the microstructure and photoluminescence of hydrothermally crystallized ZnWO4. Tungsten 1, 266–275 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42864-019-00030-9

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