Crystal growth of Ce2O(CO3)2·H 2O in aqueous solutions: Film formation and samarium doping

Masashi Oikawa; Shinobu Fujihara

doi:10.1016/j.jssc.2005.04.017

Crystal growth of Ce₂O(CO₃)₂·H ₂O in aqueous solutions: Film formation and samarium doping

Masashi Oikawa, Shinobu Fujihara

Department of Applied Chemistry

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Abstract

Crystalline cerium oxide carbonate hydrate (Ce₂O(CO ₃)₂·H₂O) was grown in aqueous solutions at a low temperature of 80 °C under ambient pressure. When cerium nitrate was used as a starting material, large Ce₂O(CO₃) ₂·H₂O particles were precipitated through homogeneous nucleation and subsequent fast crystal growth. In contrast, the usage of cerium chloride was found to promote the preferential precipitation of Ce₂O(CO₃)₂·H₂O on foreign substrates through heterogeneous nucleation and slow crystal growth. This phenomenon was applied to a chemical bath deposition of Ce₂O(CO ₃)₂·H₂O films. Immersion of glass substrates in the solution at 80 °C for typically 24 h resulted in formation of solid films with a unique morphology like a micrometer-scale brush. It was also found that samarium could be incorporated into Ce₂O(CO ₃)₂·H₂O during the crystal growth in the solutions, as evidenced by characteristic photoluminescence of Sm³⁺ in heating products of CeO₂. These results suggest that rare-earth oxide carbonate hydrates with a variety of compositions and morphologies can be synthesized from the aqueous solutions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2036-2041
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Volume	178
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2005.04.017
Publication status	Published - 2005 Jun

Keywords

Cerium dioxide
Cerium oxide carbonate hydrate
Chemical bath deposition
Crystal growth
Photoluminescence
Solid films

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Ceramics and Composites
Condensed Matter Physics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry

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