Importance of the Hierarchical Core@Multishell Nanostructure in Obtaining White Light Emission in Ln(III)-Doped ZrO2 Nanoparticles

Autor(es)

de Oliveira, Cristine Santos ^[1] ; Bettini, Jefferson ^[2] ; Sigoli, Fernando Aparecido ^[1] ; Mazali, Italo Odone ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, UNICAMP, Inst Chem, POB 6154, BR-13081970 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Brazilian Nanotechnol Natl Lab, POB 6192, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Crystal Growth & Design; v. 17, n. 10, p. 5398-5405, OCT 2017.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

The design of the hierarchically tailored 4.4 nm nanoparticles was based on the alternation between undoped and Ln(III)-doped layers (Ln(III) = Eu(III), Tb(III)), ensuring the isolation of different Ln(III) ions in order to prevent energy transfers between them, which may lead to long-term loss of quality of the emission due to one-sided cascading of the excitation energy to a single emitter. Photoluminescence emission and excitation spectra have shown the importance of this design in obtaining white light: for the alternating layer design there is no energy transfer between Tb(III) and Eu(III) ions, and emission spectra with lambda(exc) = 260 nm of Tb(III),Eu(III)-codoped ZrO2 nanoparticles over a ZnO-coated silica host show a combination of Tb(III) green, Eu(III) red, and silica defect blue emissions resulting in pure white emission, and warm white with an additional Eu(III)-doped layer. While the ZnO coating layer was vital in improving Eu(III) emission intensity by suppression of SiO2 surface (-OH) oscillators, nanoparticles constructed with gradually fewer features of the main hierarchical nanostructure resulted in Tb(III) -> Eu(III) energy transfers, and loss of fine control over the final emission color. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 09/54066-7 - Laboratório Multiusuário de Espectroscopia Óptica Avançada
• Beneficiário: Yoshitaka Gushikem
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa Equipamentos Multiusuários