TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of NaF mineralizer on cerium-containing nanoparticles synthesized by hydrothermal process
AU - Chen, Yong
AU - Liu, Tianmo
AU - Chen, Chunlin
AU - Guo, Weiwei
AU - Sun, Rong
AU - Lv, Shuhui
AU - Saito, Mitsuhiro
AU - Peng, Xianghe
AU - Tsukimoto, Susumu
AU - Wang, Zhongchang
N1 - Funding Information:
Y.C. appreciate appreciates the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for financial support. Z.W. thanks financial supports from the Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (grant no. 24686069 ) and the Challenging Exploratory Research (grant no. 24656376 ).
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We report the preparation of cerium-containing nanoparticles by a simple yet efficient hydrothermal synthesis process using cerium resource and NaF mineralizer with no surfactant or template. We demonstrate that morphology and chemistry of the synthesized CeO2 and CeF3 nanomaterials can be manipulated via tuning concentration of the mineralizer NaF alone. The synthesis mechanism, chemical evolution, and optical properties of the harvested nanomaterials have also been investigated. The ceria and its hybrid system are found to exhibit an excellent UV-shielding capability, which provides further evidence that the mineralizer NaF is critical for governing the morphology and properties of the cerium-containing nanomaterials. Such a facile method to synthesize the functional nano-crystallites with tunable morphology and chemistry by tailoring the concentration of mineralizer alone should be applicable to other types of nanomaterials and relevant for a wide range of applications.
AB - We report the preparation of cerium-containing nanoparticles by a simple yet efficient hydrothermal synthesis process using cerium resource and NaF mineralizer with no surfactant or template. We demonstrate that morphology and chemistry of the synthesized CeO2 and CeF3 nanomaterials can be manipulated via tuning concentration of the mineralizer NaF alone. The synthesis mechanism, chemical evolution, and optical properties of the harvested nanomaterials have also been investigated. The ceria and its hybrid system are found to exhibit an excellent UV-shielding capability, which provides further evidence that the mineralizer NaF is critical for governing the morphology and properties of the cerium-containing nanomaterials. Such a facile method to synthesize the functional nano-crystallites with tunable morphology and chemistry by tailoring the concentration of mineralizer alone should be applicable to other types of nanomaterials and relevant for a wide range of applications.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physe.2013.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.physe.2013.01.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84873386000
VL - 48
SP - 181
EP - 186
JO - Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
JF - Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
SN - 1386-9477
ER -