Silver Molybdate and Silver Tungstate Nanocomposites with Enhanced Photoluminescence

• Autor(a) principal: De Santana, Yuri V. B. [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Cardoso Gomes, Jose Ernane, Matos, Leandro, Cruvinel, Guilherme Henrique, Perrin, Andre, Perrin, Christiane, Andres, Juan, Varela, José Arana [UNESP], Longo, Elson [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/58923; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/117629
• topic: Silver Molybdate; Silver Tungstate; Photoluminescence; Decorated System

Silver molybdate (Ag2MoO4) and silver tungstate (Ag2WO4) nanomaterials were prepared using two complementary methods, microwave assisted hydrothermal synthesis (MAH) (pH 7, 140 degrees C) and co-precipitation (pH 4, 70 degrees C), and were then used to prepare two core/shell composites, namely alpha-Ag2WO4/beta-Ag2MoO4 (MAH, pH 4, 140 degrees C) and beta-Ag2MoO4/beta-Ag2WO4 (co-precipitation, pH 4, 70 degrees C). The shape and size of the microcrystals were observed by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), different morphologies such as balls and nanorods. These powders were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction and UV-vis (diffuse reflectance and photoluminescence). X-ray diffraction patterns showed that the Ag2MoO4 samples obtained by the two methods were single-phased and belonged to the beta-Ag2MoO4 structure (spinel type). In contrast, the Ag2WO4 obtained in the two syntheses were structurally different: MAH exhibited the well-known tetrameric stable structure alpha-Ag2WO4, while co-precipitation afforded the metastable beta-Ag2WO4 allotrope, coexisting with a weak amount of the alpha-phase. The optical gap of beta-Ag2WO4 (3.3 eV) was evaluated for the first time. In contrast to beta-Ag2MoO4/beta-Ag2WO4, the alpha-Ag2WO4/beta-Ag2MoO4 exhibited strongly-enhanced photoluminescence in the low-energy band (650 nm), tentatively explained by the creation of a large density of local defects (distortions) at the core-shell interface, due to the presence of two different types of MOx polyhedra in the two structures.