Single-phase bismuth germanate (Bi 4 Ge 3 O 12 abbreviated as BGO) powder was successfully synthesized by means of a room-temperature chemical process under atmospheric pressure. This was achieved by mixing ammonia with a homogeneous aqueous solution of bismuth nitrate containing excess nitric acid and ammonium germanate. The resulting BGO powder exhibited a peculiar morphology of nanoscale indentations that gave each particle a flower-like shape. The main peak of its photoluminescence (PL) spectrum was almost the same as that observed with commercial high-purity BGO powder, but additional weak luminescence peaks were observed at about 370 and 820 nm that showed good agreement with the PL peaks of BiGeO 2 (OH) 2 (NO 3 ) powder. Furthermore, the synthesized BGO powder was confirmed to be a single BGO phase through X-ray diffraction and Rietveld analysis, and the existence on the adsorbed H 2 O, HNO 3 , and chemisorbed NO 3 were detected through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.
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