A unique organically-templated vanadium(IV) oxyfluoride, [pyH][V(2)O(2)F(5)] has been prepared using an ionothermal approach. This compound has a novel layered structure which may be considered as arising via condensation of previously known 'ladder-like' structural building units. This suggests that ionothermal synthesis may provide a more effective route to extended network structures in thes...

Upconversion luminescence has been studied for Er in a germanate-oxyfluoride and a tellurium-germanate-oxyfluoride transparent glass-ceramic using 800 nm excitation. Significantly increased upconversion luminescence was observed from transparent glass-ceramics compared with that from their corresponding as-prepared glasses. In addition to a strong green emission centered at 545 nm from S3/2 sta...

Yttrium fluoride YF3:Er(3+) and yttrium oxyfluoride YOF:Er(3+) submicron-crystals with mid-infrared fluorescent emissions were synthesized for the first time. The rhombohedral phase YOF submicron-crystals were synthesized by the crystalline phase transformation from pure orthorhombic YF3 submicron-crystals, which were prepared by co-precipitation method. The composition and morphology were char...

Oxyfluoride glasses doped with 2, 5, 8, 12, 16 and 20 mol% of ytterbium (Yb(3+)) ions have been prepared by the conventional melt-quenching technique. Their optical, thermal and thermo-mechanical properties were characterized. Luminescence intensity at 1020 nm under laser excitation at 920 nm decreases with increasing Yb(3+) concentration, suggesting a decrease in the photoluminescence quantum ...

in the present study, silver oxyfluoride modified silver electrode was employed to electrocatalytic oxidation of isoniazid. the process of oxidation and its kinetics were established by using cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry and amperometry techniques. the modified electrode shows a stable and linear response in the concentration range of 3×10−4 to 2.1×10−3 mol l-1 with a correlation coeff...

This paper reports the study of both direct and indirect up-conversion sensitization luminescence phenomenon of the Tm ion’s G level in ZBLAN glass, oxyfluoride glass and pentaphosphate non-crystallite. We found, in the case of 4 indirect up-conversion sensitization, the up-conversion luminescence of Tm Yb La P O non-crystallite is enhanced 0.03 0.18 0.79 5 14 Ž . Ž . up to a level comparable t...

Metal oxyfluorides constitute a broad group of chemical compounds with rich spectrum crystal structures and properties. Surprisingly though, none the ternary contains cation from 11 periodic table. Intending to find one, we focused on silver derivative, Ag2OF2 system, which may be considered as 1:1 “adduct” AgF2 (i.e., an antiferromagnetic positive U charge transfer insulator) AgO diamagnetic d...