Development of various methods for PrF3 nanoparticles synthesis

TL;DR

This paper explores various synthesis methods for PrF3 nanoparticles, analyzing how reaction conditions influence particle size, shape, and crystallinity, with implications for tailored nanomaterial production.

Contribution

It introduces different chemical and hydrothermal synthesis techniques for PrF3 nanoparticles and examines their effects on particle characteristics.

Findings

Particle size increases by about 10 nm per hour of hydrothermal reaction

Precursor choice affects nanoparticle shape

Synthesized samples exhibit high crystallinity

Abstract

The six nanosized PrF3 samples were synthesized using two different chemical reactions and different time of hydrothermal reaction. The X-ray and HRTEM experiments showed high crystallinity of synthesized samples. For all samples the particles size distribution was obtained. It was shown, that precursors of chemical reaction have influence on the shape of synthesized nanoparticles. The size of nanoparticles depended on the time of hydrothermal reaction as much as roughly 10 nm per hour.