Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Preparation and Photoluminescence of Mesoporous ZrO2/(1-n)SiO2-nAl2O3 Nanocomposites

YAO Lian--Zeng; MO Ji-Mei; LI Yuang-Hong; CAI Wei-Li;   

  1. Department of Materials Science Engineering; University of Science Technology of ChinaHefei 230026 China)
  • Received:1997-11-10 Revised:1997-12-05 Published:1998-12-20 Online:1998-12-20

Abstract: (1-n)SiO2-nAl2O3 (n=0, 0.01, 0.1) aerogels were prepared by using a sol-gel route and followed by the supercritical drying technique. Nano-ZrO2 precipitates
were introduced into the pores of the aerogels. Photoluminescence of the ZrO2/(1-n)SiO2-nAl2O3 nanocomposites was measured. The results show that the luminescence
peak at about 540nm (2.30eV) for nano-ZrO2 bulk sample shifts to 400nm (3.10eV) (blue shift) for ZrO2/(1-n)SiO2-nAl2O3 nanocomposites, when the excitation
wavelength is 316nm (3.92eV) at room temperature. The blue shift is about 140nm. The relative intensities of the luminescence peak change with the doping amount of the
nano-Al2O3. Mechanism of change of the luminescence peak in the visible region was proposed.

Key words: nanocomposite, aerogel, photoluminescence

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