title: Transformation of barium-titanium chloro-alkoxide compound to BaTiO3 nanoparticles by BaCl2 elimination.
abstract: In this Article, we present how the molecular precursor of binary oxide material having an excess of alkali earth metal can be transformed to the highly phase pure BaTiO3 perovskite. Here, we synthesized and compared two barium-titanium complexes with and without chloride ligands to determine the influences of different ligands on the phase purity of binary oxide nanoparticles. We prepared two barium-titanium complexes, i.e., [Ba4Ti2(μ6-O)(OCH2CH2OCH3)10(HOCH2CH2OCH3)2(HOOCCPh3)4] (1) and [Ba4Ti2(μ6-O)(μ3,η2-OCH2CH2OCH3)8(μ-OCH2CH2OCH3)2(μ-HOCH2CH2OCH3)4Cl4] (2). The barium-titanium precursors were characterized using elemental analysis, infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies, and single-crystal X-ray structural analysis, and their thermal decomposition products were compared. The complex 1 decomposed at 800 °C to give a mixture of BaTiO3 and Ba2TiO4, whereas 2 gave a BaCl2/BaTiO3 mixture. Particles of submicrometer size (30-50 nm) were obtained after leaching of BaCl2 from the raw powder using deionized water. Preliminary studies of barium titanate doped with Eu(3+) sintered at 900 °C showed that the dominant luminescence band arose from the strong electric dipole transition, (5)D0-(7)F2.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław , 14 F. Joliot-Curie, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kosińska-Klähn
authors.forename: Łukasz
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authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: Anna
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authors.lastname: Drąg-Jarząbek
authors.forename: Józef
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authors.lastname: Utko
authors.forename: Rafał
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authors.lastname: Petrus
authors.forename: Lucjan B
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authors.lastname: Jerzykiewicz
authors.forename: Piotr
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authors.lastname: Sobota