Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Facile Synthesis and Photoluminescence of Calcium Sulphate Nanorods

ZHANG Xiu-Li1,2, LI Li1, DING Ya-Ping1   

  1. (1. Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200436, China; 2. Department of Applied Chemistry, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China)
  • Received:2005-11-21 Revised:2006-05-19 Published:2006-11-20 Online:2006-11-20

Abstract: In this paper, uniform and dispersive CaSO0.662H2O nanorods were synthesized in reverse micellae (W/O microemulsion) containing AEO, cyclohexane, and n-pentanol. The average diameter and length were 50nm and 800~-1600nm respectively. The study of the preparation conditions showed that the preferred synthesis conditions were: ω(H2O/surfactant)=6~15, γ(oil/surfactant)=5~12 and the reactant concentration 0.05~0.3mol/L. The property study showed that nano calcium sulphate could produce stronger purple light emission at 339nm. This property would have a very expansive application prospect in the fields of nano-electric devices and so on.

Key words: calcium sulphate, nanorods, reverse micelles, soft template

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