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We report on the structural, optical, and magnetic properties of α,ß-NiMoO4 nanorods synthesized by annealing the NiMoO4:nH2O precursor at 600°C for 10 minutes in a domestic microwave. The crystalline structure properties of α,ß-NiMoO4 were investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), and Raman (FT-Raman) spectroscopies. The particle morphologies and size distributions were identified by field emission microscopy (FE-SEM). Experimental data were obtained by magnetization measurements for different applied magnetic fields. Optical properties were analyzed by ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) and photoluminescence (PL) measurements. Our results revealed that the oxygen atoms occupy different positions and are very disturbed in the lattice and exhibit a particular characteristic related to differences in the length of the chemical bonds (Ni-O and Mo-O) of the cluster structure or defect densities in the crystalline α,ß-NiMoO4 nanorods, which are the key to a deeper understanding of the exploitable physical and chemical properties in this study.
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In this work, a SiO(2) spherical were prepared by the Stöber Method and then recovered with a single layer of Eu(2)O(3) oxide (SiO(2)@Eu(2)O(3)) obtained by the Polymeric Precursor Method. The SiO(2)@Eu(2)O(3) powder was heated treated at 100, 300, 400, 500 and 800 °C. The samples were characterized by the Scanning Electonic Microscopy (SEM), Thermal Analysis (TGA/DTA), and the luminescent properties of the SiO(2)@Eu(2)O(3) powders were studied by their emission and excitation spectra as well as by the lifetime measurements of the Eu(3+) (5)D(0) â (7)F(2) transition. The SEM analysis shows that the silica prepared by the Stöber Method is spherical with a particle size of 460 nm. The emission spectra of the SiO(2)@Eu(2)O(3) powders presented the Eu(3+) characteristics bands related to the (5)D(0) â (7)F(J) (J = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) transitions at 577, 591, 616, 649 and 695 nm, respectively. The band related to the (5)D(0) â (7)F(2) transition is the most intense in the spectra, and its intensity decreases with the temperature enhancement. The decay curves of the SiO(2)@Eu(2)O(3) samples presented monoexponential features, and the obtained lifetime values were higher than the Eu(2)O(3) oxide. It was possible to conclude that the (5)D(0) â (7)F(2) hypersensitive transition is strongly dependent on the Eu(3+) surrounding.
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Nowadays solid state chemists have the possibility of work with low temperature strategies to obtain solid state materials with appropriate physical and chemical properties for useful technological applications. Photonic core shell materials having a core and shell domains composed by a variety of compounds have been synthesized by different methods. In this work we used silica-germania soot prepared by vapor-phase axial deposition as a core where a nanoshell of Eu(2)O(3) was deposited. A new sol-gel like method was used to obtain the Eu(2)O(3) nanoshell coating the SiO(2)-GeO(2) particles, which was prepared by the polymeric precursor method. The photophysical properties of Eu(3+) were used to obtain information about the rare earth surrounding in the SiO(2)-GeO(2)@Eu(2)O(3) material during the sintering process. The sintering process was followed by the luminescence spectra of Eu(3+) and all the samples present the characteristic emission related to the (5)D(0)-->(7)F( J ) (J = 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4). The ratios of the (5)D(0)-->(7)F(2)/(5)D(0)-->(7)F(1) emission intensity for the SiO(2)-GeO(2)@Eu(2)O(3) systems were calculated and it was observed an increase in its values, indicating a low symmetry around the Eu(3+) as the temperature increases.
