Growth of calcium vanadate nanorods

Zinc vanadate nanorods and their visible light photocatalytic activity

“…The zinc vanadate nanorods have semi-circular closed tips. The morphology of the zinc vanadate nanorods is similar to that of the nanorods with different compositions synthesized from the hydrothermal process [21][22][23].…”

“…3b) further indicates that the zinc vanadate nanorods have clear parallel fringes showing good single crystalline structure. The fringe spacing is determined to be 0.53 nm which is same to the lattice spacing of {1 1 0} plane of monoclinic Similar to the nanorods with different compositions [21][22][23], special hydrothermal growth conditions are required to prepare regular zinc vanadate nanorods. The hydrothermal experiments with the pH value of 2, 7, 9 and 12 were performed so as to investigate the effects of pH value on the morphologies and phases of the zinc vanadate products.…”

A simple method to control the formation of cerium phosphate architectures

“…2,8,15,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55] Spherulitic crystal growth is commonly facilitated by structure directing agents or other additives that can specifically bind to certain crystal planes and can stabilize the newly formed facets. In contrast with these studies no additives are employed to initiate crystal splitting in our work.…”

Structural and optical properties of Dy3+ doped Sr2SiO4 phosphors

“…Luminescent materials in various forms including colloidal, bulk and nanocrystals are of interest not only for basic research but also for numerous applications [1][2][3]. Chemical and physical properties of inorganic micro-and nanostructured materials are dependent on their chemical composition, size, morphology, phase and also dimensionality of the crystal [4][5][6][7]. More applications and novel functional materials might emerge by shape-controlled nano/micro crystals with high efficiency [8].…”