Summarized literatures on Y(OH)3 nanowires synthesized by precipitation- hydrothermal synthetic method
1. Introduction
Yttrium is one of the most important rare-earth elements. Yttrium compounds show promise for applications such as high quality phosphors, catalysts, up-conversion materials and fine ceramics because of their optical, catalytic properties and high-temperature stability. Yttrium oxide is the most familiar yttrium compound, which is popularly known as host for ion doping of other rare earth elements. For example, europium doped yttrium oxide, Y2O3:Eu3+, is a superior red phosphor with a quantum efficiency of nearly 100%. It presents good luminescent characteristic, acceptable atmospheric stability, reduced degradation under applied voltages, and the lack of hazardous constituents as opposed to sulphide phosphors, thus it has commercial applications in fluorescent lamps, projection televisions, and field emission displays (FEDs). With respect to the physical properties, yttrium oxide has a high melting point (Tm = 2430 C), which is higher than that of a number of other well-known oxides, such as alumina, zirconia, yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG), and spinel. Yttrium oxide exists as a cubic phase and is stable up to melting point without any phase transformations. Furthermore, it has a very large unit cell, which results in large unit slip distances. Hence, it is expected that plastic deformation in yttrium oxide by dislocation motion would be difficult. These properties endow it with usefulness as bulk ceramics for refractory applications. In addition, yttrium oxide has found applications in a wide variety of catalytic reactions owing to its basic nature. Therefore, the preparation of yttrium oxide, as well as its precursors, has attracted much academic attention. Yttrium oxide has been prepared in many shapes, like spherical particle (Tomaszewski et al., 1997, Sharma et al., 1998, Yang et al., 2007), rod (Wan et al., 2005), tube (Li et al., 2004, Fang et al., 2003, Tang et al., 2003, Wang et al., 2003, Zhang et al., 2008), prism (Zhang et al., 2005), plate (Wan et al., 2005) or sheet (Zhang et al., 2008), and wire. Our group has systematically investigated the phase distribution and morphology of products synthesized under hydrothermal conditions (Li & Yanagisawa, 2008). It was found that by simply adjusting the hydrothermal temperature and initial pH value of the starting solution, yttrium oxide with a diversity of well-defined morphologies like sheet, rod, needle and tube were successfully fabricated from different precursors. At the same time, the particle size of products could be controlled in a wide range.
Hitherto, the reported synthetic pathways to yttrium oxide nanowire were unlimitedly accomplished by the preparation of its precursors through hydrothermal reaction followed by decomposing these precursors into oxide. Hydrothermal reaction will not result in yttrium oxide directly, because yttrium oxide is not stable under hydrothermal conditions at temperature lower than 550 C, according to the phase diagram of Y2O3-H2O system (Shafer & Roy, 1959).
Reactant | pH | Hydrothermal T . | Size | Reference |
Y 2 O 3 + 10% HNO 3 + 10% NaOH/KOH | 13 | for 12-24 h | D id not mention | Wang & Li, 2003 |
Y(NO 3 ) 3 E 6H 2 O + 10% KOH | 10 | for 10 h | D: 30-40 nm; L: 1.4 µ m | Li et al., 2004 |
Y 2 O 3 + concentrated HNO 3 + NaOH | 12-13 | 170 for 12 h | D:100-300 nm; L: 1-2 µ m | Bai et al., 2005 |
Y 2 O 3 + concentrated HNO 3 + NaOH + PEG 2000 | 13 | for 24 h | D: 85-95 nm; L: several tens of microns | Wu et al., 2005 |
Y 2 O 3 + HNO 3 + ammoina solution | 12 | for 24 h | D : 40-100 nm; L: ~1.4 µ m | Li & Yanagisawa, 2008 |
Y(NO3)3 E 6 H 2 O (5mol% Sm) +15% TEAH | 13 | for 10 h | D : 50 ± 3 nm; L: several tens of microns | Zahir et al., 2009 |
Wirelike yttrium hydroxide with hexagonal structure has been used as the precursor of yttrium oxide nanowires. Generally, the reported synthesis of yttrium hydroxide nanowires is accomplished through a two-step route, which is also called precipitation-hydrothermal synthetic method. Firstly, the precipitation of precursor colloids is obtained by adjusting the pH value of Y(NO3)3 aqueous solution, sometimes produced by dissolving Y2O3 in nitric acid, to 10-14 through the addition of NaOH/KOH solution. Then this precipitation is hydrothermally treated at 120-180 ºC. The products are usually composed of discrete, single-crystalline hydroxide nanowires with diameter of 30-300 nm. Corresponding oxide nanowires were received after thermal treating the hydroxide at 450-700 ºC in air. For instance, Wang et al. reported the synthesis of hydroxide nanowires of yttrium and of other rare-earth elements through this synthetic method at 180 ºC and pH around 13 (Wang & Li, 2003). The driving force for the growth was attributed to the crystal structure of yttrium hydroxide. Li et al. explained the formation mechanism of yttrium hydroxide nanowires by the complex interaction and balance between the chemical potential and the rate of ionic motion (Li et al., 2004). Europium doped yttrium oxide nanowires were also prepared by this method by mixing appropriate amount of europium oxide and yttrium oxide. The obtained Y2O3:Eu3+ nanowires exhibited strong red 5D0-7F2 transitions in fluorescent spectra. Our group found that using ammonia solution replacing NaOH/KOH as precipitation reagent, yttrium hydroxide nanowires could be obtained at pH 12.5 via hydrothermal reaction at 200 ºC (Li & Yanagisawa, 2008). Several other researches also reported similar synthetic routes to yttrium hydroxide and yttrium oxide nanowires. Table 1 summarized the synthesis conditions and product information obtained in literatures. However, the hydroxide and oxide nanowires prepared through this synthetic method usually exhibit low aspect ratio, at most 50, which makes it look more like needles than wires, as shown in Fig. 1. Yttrium hydroxide nanowires with higher aspect ratio could be prepared by a polymer-assisted hydrothermal method (Wu et al., 2005). It is presumed that polyethylene glycol (PEG) played an important role on the formation of hydroxide nanowires. However, the final products coexisted with a mixture of nanorods and nanobelts. Recently, it is reported that after the doping of 5 mol% Sm3+ into yttrium and using tetraethylammonium hydroxide (TEAH) as precipitator, very well separated yttrium hydroxide nanowires with high aspect ratio were prepared (Zahir et al., 2009). The authors attributed the growth of yttrium hydroxide nanowires to the presence of Sm3+ and tetraethylammonium ion.
Our group has recently exploited a simpler one-step hydrothermal synthetic method to prepare yttrium hydroxide nanowires, where yttrium oxide powder instead of soluble yttrium salts was directly used as a starting material, and the reaction was conducted under near neutral conditions. Unlike yttrium hydroxide nanowires obtained by precipitation-hydrothermal synthetic method, the nanowires synthesized via this one-step method showed unusual, bundle-like morphology with much higher aspect ratio (Li et al., 2009). Furthermore, we found that two other yttrium compounds, yttrium oxide nitrate hydroxide (Li & Yanagisawa, 2008) and yttrium chloride hydroxide could also be prepared in wire shape in nanometer size. Both of them were synthesized through precipitation-hydrothermal synthetic method, using yttrium nitrate and yttrium chloride as starting material respectively. In this chapter, we will introduce the preparation and characterization of the three wirelike yttrium compounds, as well as their conversion to yttrium oxide nanowires.
2. Yttrium oxide nanowires prepared from yttrium hydroxide
As has introduced above, the yttrium hydroxide nanowires prepared from the precipitation-hydrothermal synthetic method usually exhibit low aspect ratio. Recently, we synthesized yttrium hydroxide nanowires by an acetic acid (HAc) assisted hydrothermal method under near neutral conditions. The as-synthesized nanowires are of higher aspect ratio up to 2000. The preparation was effected through a one-step hydrothermal procedure, simpler than the precipitation-hydrothermal synthetic method. Typically, the appropriate quantities of Y2O3 powder and 0.067 mol/L acetic acid aqueous solution were mixed at room temperature and hydrothermally treated at 200 ºC for 24 h under agitation. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) characterization indicated that the product could be indexed to a pure hexagonal phase of Y(OH)3, with lattice cell constants of
It was found that the formation of yttrium hydroxide nanowires was closely correlated with the presence of HAc and its concentration. Hydrothermal reaction conducted in pure water suggested that a majority of yttrium oxide could be converted into hydroxide after 72 hours of hydrothermal treatment, indicating that HAc was not necessary for this transformation. This result was consistent with the Y2O3-H2O phase diagram. However, the conversion process without the participation of HAc was very slow, and the product morphology totally differed from that of yttrium hydroxide prepared with the assistance of HAc. Our experiment results proved that in the presence of HAc the whole reaction was completed within several hours. Moreover, it was also found that the product morphology was sensitive to HAc concentration. Yttrium hydroxide could be prepared at concentration between 0.001 and 0.01 mol/L. The optimum HAc concentration for the growth of uniform nanowires was 0.006-0.007 mol/L. Lower concentration would result in irregular rods in a wide scale of size, while higher concentration would lead to the formation of an unknown phase, probably being yttrium acetate compound.
The investigation on the intermediate products obtained during different growth stages suggested that with the process of time, yttrium oxide disappeared step by step, while the appearance of hydroxide was observed at the same time. The transformation from oxide into hydroxide was completed within two hours. SEM images (Fig. 4) indicated that at the early stage of hydrothermal reaction, the sample was composed of irregular blocks and a small quantity of microrods with quasi-hexagonal geometry, which was unreacted yttrium oxide and the formed hydroxide, respectively. The individual microrod was constructed by numerous of nanorods fused in the same orientation. Along with the proceeding of hydrothermal reaction, these rods became less faceted, and the diameter is not uniform along the long axis, forming a spindle-like structure. The tips of the rod looked like tubes. As the reaction proceeded, the size of these microrods, as well as the aspect ratio increased, suggesting that the growth along the long-axis was faster than that along the short-axis. This result was supported by XRD results that the intensity of (110) diffraction of yttrium hydroxide increased remarkably in comparison with that of (101) diffraction. Subsequently, the tips of these rods began to split into wires and the whole rod developed into a bundle of nanowires eventually.
It is likely that the growth is accomplished through an oriented attachment and the subsequent dissolution process from the defect sites. Firstly, yttrium oxide gradually dissolves into the solution, and yttrium hydroxide nucleates into 1D nanocrystals owing to the high anisotropic structure along
HAc plays a key role in the formation of the unusual nanowires, probably acting in two ways. Firstly, the addition of HAc changes the pH value of solution, thus accelerates the conversion from yttrium oxide to hydroxide. Secondly, acetic acid molecules or ions adsorb to the surface of yttrium hydroxide crystallites, introducing defects and blocking the attachment mechanism.
3. Yttrium oxide nanowires prepared from yttrium oxide nitrate hydroxide
As we have mentioned in the introduction of this chapter, yttrium hydroxide nanowires could be prepared through a precipitation-hydrothermal synthetic method. Our group have systematically investigated the precipitation-hydrothermal reaction conducted in a wide range of temperature and pH value. It was found that three compounds, hydrated yttrium nitrate hydroxide Y2(OH)5.14(NO3)0.86, yttrium oxide nitrate hydroxide Y4O(OH)9(NO3), and hexagonal yttrium hydroxide Y(OH)3 were obtained when hydrothermal reaction were conducted at 80-220 C and pH 6.0-13.5. Y2(OH)5.14(NO3)0.86 and Y4O(OH)9(NO3) occurred under near neutral to weak basic conditions, and low hydrothermal temperature would result in Y2(OH)5.14(NO3)0.86, while Y4O(OH)9(NO3) was received at higher temperature. If the hydrothermal reaction was conducted under strong basic condition, Y(OH)3 was obtained. The pH boundary where Y(OH)3 was formed was 11.25 and 13.0 when ammonia and NaOH solution was used as precipitator respectively. Among the three yttrium compounds, yttrium oxide nitrate hydroxide Y4O(OH)9(NO3) could also be synthesized in wire shape, which made it a alternative precursor for the preparation of yttrium oxide nanowires.
The synthesis of Y4O(OH)9(NO3) was almost identical with that of yttrium hydroxide with the exception that the reaction was conducted at a slightly lower pH value. In a typical synthesis process, an appropriate quantity of yttrium oxide was dissolved in nitric acid. Then ammonia/NaOH solution was added to adjust the solution to a designated pH value. Products were received after hydrothermal treatment at 80-220 C for 24 h and then investigated by XRD and TEM characterizations. As the XRD pattern shown in Fig. 2b, the product could be attributed to a pure monoclinic phase. TEM images (Fig. 6a, b) illustrated that these nanowires were straight and well-dispersed with uniform diameter along the longitudinal axis. The diameter ranged from 30 to 50 nm, while the length was up to tens of micrometers. Some nanowires were as long as several millimetres, spanning the whole visual field under the TEM observation at low magnification (×4). That means the nanowires could be prepared with extraordinary high aspect ratio. Some of the shorter nanowires probably were broken fragments from the longer ones by the ultrasonic during the TEM pre-treatment. HRTEM and SAED characterization revealed its single crystalline nature. It seems that the driving force for the spontaneous growth of nanowires is the anisotropic characteristic of monoclinic structure of yttrium oxide nitrate hydroxide. The yttrium oxide obtained through calcinations maintained the wire shape. However, it became porous in contrast with its precursor, as shown in Fig. 6c.
This yttrium compound could be prepared in a wide pH range, from 6.0 to 13.0. However, nanometer sized product was only obtained at relatively high pH value, for example, pH 12.5, while low pH value would lead to the formation of microrods with hexagonal cross-section. Along with the increasing pH value, the size of the product decreased. This is because that high pH value leads to the formation of large amount of nuclei and small particles is favoured due to the suppressed growth of each nuclear. It should be noted that further increasing the pH value would give rise to the formation of yttrium hydroxide, which contains more hydroxyl in its structure and thus is more stable than yttrium oxide nitrate hydroxide under stronger basic conditions. Therefore, by carefully controlling the pH value of the colloidal solution and its concentration, nanosized products could be prepared. The effects of hydrothermal temperature on products were also studied by fixing the pH value and changing the reaction temperature from 140 C to 220 C. The products did not show much difference in morphology except for the size distribution narrowed down with increasing temperature, indicating that pH value was the predominant factor in strong basic media, and the morphologies were less dependent on reaction temperature as compared with pH value.
4. Yttrium oxide nanowires prepared from yttrium chloride hydroxide
In the aforementioned precipitation-hydrothermal synthesis, it is yttrium nitrate that was used as starting material. What will happen if yttrium chloride took the place of yttrium nitrate? Our study revealed that different products were received in this case, and Cl element was usually involved in the final products. Among them, an yttrium chloride hydroxide with indefinite composition could be prepared in wire shape.
Similar as that of Y4O(OH)9(NO3), the synthesis was started by dissolving yttrium oxide in hydrochloric acid. Ammonia solution was then added to adjust the solution to designated pH value. Flocculent product was received after hydrothermal treatment at 200 C for 12 h. The crystal structure and morphology of the products were studied by XRD and SEM, respectively. Fig. 2c shows the XRD pattern of the product hydrothermally synthesized at pH 9.5. It was poorly crystallized and could not be identified to any known phase. SEM observation revealed that the product consisted of sub-micrometer wires. The wires were of uniform diameter ranging from 100 to 300 nm, while the length was up to tens of microns, as shown in Fig. 7. It is possible that the wirelike product synthesized at pH 9.5 belongs to chloride hydroxide hydrate, represented by Y(OH)xCl3-x yH2O. These wirelike products could be prepared within the pH range from 9.50 to 10.25.
5. Decomposition behaviours of yttrium oxide precursors
All of the three above-mentioned yttrium compounds could be converted into yttrium oxide through calcination in air. Their wirelike morphologies were maintained except for the slight shrinkage in size, arising from the higher density of yttrium oxide compared with their precursors. Because of the difference in structural compositions, these compounds exhibited different characteristics during calcination. Their decomposition behaviours were illustrated in Fig. 8.
During heat treatment, yttrium hydroxide nanowires synthesized by the HAc-assisted hydrothermal method underwent two step-wised decomposition procedures, where yttrium hydroxide was firstly transformed into an intermediate oxyhydroxide, YOOH, and then it converted into oxide at elevated temperature. The conversions occurred at around 280 and 415 C, respectively, as indicated by two DTA endothermic peaks in Fig. 8a.
For Y4O(OH)9(NO3) nanowires, there were two decomposition procedures during the heat treatment, as shown in Fig. 8b. Ion chromatography analysis suggested that the NO3 - content of intermediate products did not decrease until temperature increased to 460 C, indicating that N-O species were released in the second step. The weight loss of the first procedure between 330 C to 450 C was 10.14%, lower than the theoretical value associated with the total release of water (13.8%). It suggests that some hydroxyl was stilled remained in the structure. Following this step, sample transformed into oxide at around 490 C, accompanied by the release of N-O species and water.
With respect to yttrium chloride hydroxide, it also underwent two decomposition procedures during calcinations, as shown in Fig. 8c. The first one below 400 C gave weight loss of 14.0%, which was consistent with the release of water, and the weight loss of 9.2% during the second step corresponded to the release of HCl. Its calcination behaviour exhibited an overall weight loss of 23.2%.
6. Conclusion
In summary, we have prepared three wirelike yttrium compounds by hydrothermal method, which were hexagonal yttrium hydroxide, yttrium oxide nitrate hydroxide, and yttrium chloride hydroxide. Hexagonal yttrium hydroxide nanowires were synthesized as single crystals from yttrium oxide powder by a simple acetic acid-assisted hydrothermal method under near neutral conditions. The nanowires show unusual, bundle-like morphology with diameter of 20-50 nm and aspect ratio of 600-2000. The growth of nanowires involved the oriented attachment of 1D nanocrystals to form microrods and selective dissolution from defect sites to form bundles of nanowires. Another wirelike yttrium compound, Y4O(OH)9(NO3) were obtained through conventional precipitation-hydrothermal synthetic route under basic condition. These nanowires were straight and well-dispersed single crystals, with extraordinary high aspect ratio and uniform diameter ranging from 30 to 50 nm. By substituting yttrium nitrate with yttrium chloride, yttrium chloride hydroxide nanowires with diameter of 100-300 nm and length up to tens of microns were synthesized at pH 9.50-10.25 via hydrothermal reaction.
All of the three compounds could be utilized to fabricate yttrium oxide nanowires through thermal treatment. This one dimensional (1D) structure may lead to new opportunities in yttrium chemistry. For example, the yttrium oxide nanowires showed intriguing high-temperature stability. Our experiments suggested that after calcination at 1400 C, the yttrium oxide nanowires obtained from yttrium chloride hydroxide remained their wire shape, which makes it promising material for refractory applications, such as refractory insulation and high temperature gas filtration. Furthermore, the formation of the three compounds all went through a dissolution-crystallization procedure. Therefore, homogeneous rare earth doped yttrium oxide nanowires could be prepared by using mixture of yttrium and other rare earth oxide as starting material. By this means, 1D luminescent materials like Y2O3:Eu3+ nanowires can be fabricated, which may extend its application and benefit the understanding of the luminescent mechanism in low dimensional materials.
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