access icon free Facile synthesis of hollow microspherical YPO4: Eu3+/Tb3+ using polystyrene spheres as sacrificial template and its photoluminescent properties

Monodisperse hollow microspherical YPO4:Ln3+ (Ln3+ = Eu3+/Tb3+) with diameters of around 2.5 µm have been successfully synthesised by combining a convenient homogeneous precipitation method, an ion exchange method, and a calcination process for the first time. X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared, thermogravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and photoluminescence spectra were used to characterise the samples. Upon ultraviolet excitation, Eu3+- and Tb3+-doped microspherical YPO4 showed typical red and green emission, respectively, which provide potential applications in bioanalysis, future colour displays, light-emitting devices, and so on.

Inspec keywords: Fourier transform infrared spectra; X-ray diffraction; ion exchange; europium; thermal analysis; calcination; photoluminescence; yttrium compounds; scanning electron microscopy; precipitation (physical chemistry); terbium; doping; transmission electron microscopy

Other keywords: polystyrene spheres; doped microspherical material; scanning electron microscopy; Fourier transform infrared spectra; transmission electron microscopy; sacrificial template; ultraviolet excitation; YPO4:Tb; photoluminescent properties; calcination; YPO4:Eu; convenient homogeneous precipitation method; monodisperse hollow microspherical material; X-ray diffraction; thermogravimetric analysis; ion exchange method

Subjects: Other heat and thermomechanical treatments; Photoluminescence in other inorganic materials; Doping and implantation of impurities; Infrared and Raman spectra in inorganic crystals; Chemical exchanges (substitution, atom transfer, abstraction, disproportionation, and group exchange)

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