Importance of the Mixing and High-Temperature Heating Steps in the Controlled Thermal Coprecipitation Synthesis of Sub-5-nm Na(Gd-Yb)FTm

Baptiste Amouroux; Clément Roux; Jean-Daniel Marty; Mathieu Pasturel; Aude Bouchet; Michel Sliwa; Olivier Leroux; Fabienne Gauffre; Christophe Coudret

Importance of the Mixing and High-Temperature Heating Steps in the Controlled Thermal Coprecipitation Synthesis of Sub-5-nm Na(Gd-Yb)FTm

Baptiste Amouroux ^{1, 2} Clément Roux ¹ Jean-Daniel Marty ¹ Mathieu Pasturel ² Aude Bouchet ³ Michel Sliwa ³ Olivier Leroux Fabienne Gauffre ² Christophe Coudret ¹

1 IMRCP - Interactions moléculaires et réactivité chimique et photochimique

2 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

3 LASIR - Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman - UMR 8516

Abstract : In order to achieve a significant size reduction to get ultrasmall upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) following a thermal coprecipitation pathway, we identified two critical points the UCNP precursor mixing and high-temperature heating steps. Significant differences could be observed according to the way the inorganic sodium and fluoride sources were mixed to the rare-earth oleate before the high-temperature heating step. More interestingly, accurate monitoring of the high-temperature heating step using microwave (MW) dielectric heating yielded major improvement toward ultrasmall UCNPs. Thus, hexagonal, Tm-doped sub-5-nm UCNPs with an unusual Na(Yb-Gd)F matrix with 53% Yb were produced, displaying satisfactory luminescence. Noticeably, MW heating was achieved in a weakly MW-absorbing oleic acid (OA)/octadecene mixture, and the influence of the OA content composition on the MW heating efficiency is discussed in this report.

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