Facile preparation of nanosized yttrium oxide by the thermal decomposition of amorphous Schiff base yttrium complex precursor

摘要

Nanoparticles of yttrium (III) oxide were synthetized by thermal combustion of previously prepared yttrium complex of pyridoxylidenealanine under air atmosphere at 750 degrees C Amorphous complex was characterized by XRD and IR and NMR spectroscopy. The prepared nanoparticles were characterized by XRD and TEM revealing the size of the vast majority of particles ranging from 10 to 30 nm. The synthesis method can be modified by addition of any RE and can be used for many applications especially in the field of non-linear optics or in biomedical applications where use of more fine nanoparticles may be problematic or even dangerous. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.