Fabrication of Sb2O3 nanobelt bundles via a facile ultrasound-assisted room temperature liquid phase chemical route and evaluation of their optical properties
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Li, Bin-jie; Xu, Xiang-min; Zhao, Yan-bao; Zhang, Zhi-jun
- Source
- Materials Research Bulletin. Mar2013, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p1281-1287. 7p.
- Subject
- *MICROFABRICATION
*ANTIMONY
*OXIDES
*NANOSTRUCTURED materials
*ULTRASONICS
*IONIC liquids
*OPTICAL properties
*THICKNESS measurement
- Language
- ISSN
- 0025-5408
Abstract: The complex nanostructure of antimony trioxide (Sb2O3) nanobelt bundles (NBBs) were fabricated via a facile ultrasound-assisted room temperature liquid phase chemical route in less than 15min. The typical morphology of Sb2O3 NNBs is that a lot of nanobelts grow radically from the center of a bundle with lengths around 10μm, and the building block of a single nanobelt is below 100nm in thickness and 100–200nm in width. Closely inspecting the growth process and crystallographic analysis of as-synthesized product indicates that Sb2O3 NNBs growth mechanism is imperfect oriented attachment. Moreover, as-prepared Sb2O3 NBBs display a significant room temperature photoluminescence (PL) emission band at 373nm, showing great potential as new functional materials for developing advanced optoelectronic nanodevices. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]