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An alkaline one-pot reaction to synthesize luminescent Eu-BTC MOF nanorods, highly pure and water-insoluble, under room conditions

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The increasing demand for optoelectronic devices requires the development of luminescent materials with high luminescence efficiency and low energy demands, and the metalorganic frameworks (MOFs) with lanthanides ions offer great potential in this area. The metalorganic materials provide properties of flexibility, low density, low-cost methods of synthesis, and insolubility in water, which gives them an advantage over traditional phosphors. In this study, a benzenetricarboxylate ligand (BTC) with a Eu3+ MOF was synthesized, and its structural and luminescent properties were measured. The metalorganic compound was generated in a one-pot reaction from europium nitrate and trimesic acid precursors. Through characterization by X-ray diffraction powder, infrared spectroscopy, SEM structural characterization, and luminescent spectroscopy, the formation of Europium benzenetricarboxylate (Eu-BTC) MOF nanorods was tested and the calculated value was in the range of 30–60 nm. A red luminescent emission with high intensity was observed for all the procedures.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Departamento de materiales, UAM-México project No. 2260244, IPN-México SIP20140033 CONACyT projects 254280, 154736 and 153663 for financial support. We also wish to acknowledge the technical assistance of to Dr. J. N. Díaz de León (CNyN-UNAM) cDr. J. Reyes-Miranda and Eng. Fernando Almanza Hernández (UAMAzc), and Z. Rivera, (Cinvestav-IPN), and thank Oscar Francisco Rivera Dominguez, Maribel Pacheco Ramos, Hana Lopez and Daniel Cortes for their help. Finally, the authors would like to thank Henry Jankiewicz for the editing work that he did it for this paper, and to M. García Murillo for her assistance.

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  1. División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Av. San Pablo No 180, Col. Reynosa-Tamaulipas, C.P. 02200, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

    D. Y. Medina-Velazquez, B. Y. Alejandre-Zuniga, S. Loera-Serna, E. M. Ortiz & E. Garfias-Garcia

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    A. de J. Morales-Ramirez & A. Garcia-Murillo

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Medina-Velazquez, D.Y., Alejandre-Zuniga, B.Y., Loera-Serna, S. et al. An alkaline one-pot reaction to synthesize luminescent Eu-BTC MOF nanorods, highly pure and water-insoluble, under room conditions. J Nanopart Res 18, 352 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-016-3593-9

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