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ArticleScientific reports2018

Facile Microwave-assisted Synthesis Manganese Doped Zinc Sulfide Nanoparticles.

David Magalhães Sousa, Luís Cerqueira Alves, Ana Marques, Guilherme Gaspar, João Carlos Lima, Isabel Ferreira

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

David Magalhães SousaCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre, Campus Universitário, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal. dma.sousa@campus.fct.unl.pt.
Luís Cerqueira AlvesCentro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares Instituto Superior Técnico Estrada Nacional 10 (km 139,7), 2695-066, Bobadela, LRS, Portugal.
Ana MarquesCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre, Campus Universitário, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6449-1537
Guilherme GasparCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre, Campus Universitário, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.
João Carlos LimaLAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, CQF B Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre, Campus Universitário, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.
Isabel FerreiraCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre, Campus Universitário, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.

Funding

EC | European Research Council (ERC) 647596EC | Horizon 2020 (European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation) 645241Ministry of Education and Science | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation) 50025/2013
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Undoped and manganese doped zinc sulfide nanoparticles were produced by a fast, one-step and two-component microwave-assisted synthesis method. The solid phase retains around 78% of the initial Mn concentration, as revealed by Particle Induced X-ray Emission analysis. X-ray diffraction patterns confirmed zinc blende structure and in the transmission electron microscopy images, nanoparticles with triangular prism and cube shapes were observed, respectively with an average particle size around 7 nm and 13 nm. Dried powders of zinc sulfide nanoparticles, doped with 0.1 mol% and 0.7 mol% of Mn ions, show highest brilliance of luminescence under UV light. Increasing dopant levels resulted in a diminishing emission that vanishes above 4% of dopant concentration. The synthesis of ZnS was monitored and two main events were detected, one at 145 °C corresponding to the sol-gel phase formation and another after ~3 min at 300 °C where the precipitation of the zinc sulfide nanoparticles occurs.

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PMID30375422
PMCPMC6207788

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