“…Various techniques have been developed to synthesize shape-controlled lanthanide orthoborate and vanadate phosphors, such as sol-gel, spray pyrolysis, hydrothermal, and so on. Among these approaches, the hydrothermal process has already been widely applied in the preparation of various nanocrystalline phosphor compounds [6][7][8][9]. However, there have been limited reports of the preparation of monodispersion with morphology-controlled (Y,Gd)BO 3 :Eu 3 þ phosphor because most rare-earth orthoborate crystals have a tendency toward anisotropic growth and the formation of aggregates via the proposed synthesis methods, resulting in a sheet like morphology during the hydrothermal growth process [10,11].…”