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Synthesis and Characterization of a Ce3+ Trivalent Scheelite-type Compound by Solid State Method
Year:2017

Research Areas
  • Materials,
  • Engineering

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Abstract
The trivalent cerium silver tungstate, AgCe(WO4)2, with scheelite-like structure has been synthesized by solid-state method despite the relatively high instability of the trivalent Ce ion. This behavior could be explained by the redox properties of Ag2O in the solid state reaction at high temperature in air, which stabilizes the trivalent valence state. X-ray diffraction analysis was carried out and the refinement was performed in the tetragonal S.G. I 41/a (No. 88). Initially differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermal gravimetric (TG) were used to analyze the reaction process and chemical mechanism. High temperature X-ray diffraction was introduced in to investigate the thermal stability and phase transition properties. It is found that AgCe(WO4)2 can be decomposed into Ag2W2O7 and Ce2(WO4)3 at temperature range of 500 ?C e 700 ?C. No phase transition was observed up to 900 ?C from room temperature. The results of magnetic susceptibility measurement give confirmed evidence that the trivalent cerium cation existed in the compounds Ag(1ŝx) Ce(1-x)(WO4)2 (x from 0 to 1/3), and no transition from trivalent Ce3ŝ cation to tetravalent Ce4ŝ cation was observed even with decreasing cerium concentration. The fluorescence properties of Eu3ŝ and Tb3ŝ doped AgCe(WO4)2 were investigated. It is found that Tb3ŝ is qualified as a local structure probe rather than Eu3ŝ in the AgCe(WO4)2 compound considering the quenching mechanism which probably due to the metal to metal charge transfer between Ce3ŝ/W6ŝ.
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JCR
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Title
Journal of Alloys And Compounds
ISBN
0925-8388
Impact factor JCR
2,726
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Volume
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.09.333
Journal number
694
From page
345
To page
353
Month
SIN MES
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Análisis y Caracterización Óptica de Materiales