Nano/micro-scaled La(1,3,5-BTC)(H2O)6 coordination polymer: Facile morphology-controlled fabrication and color-tunable photoluminescence properties by co-doping Eu3+,Tb3+

Nano/micro-sized coordination polymer La(1,3,5-BTC)(H2O)(6) with controllable morphologies have been successfully prepared on a large scale via a simple solution phase method at room temperature. By rationally adjusting the synthetic parameters such as concentration, molar ratio of reactants, surfactant, and solvent, the La(1,3,5-BTC)(H2O)(6) with 3D flowerlike, wheatearlike, spherical, sheaflike, taillike, bundlelike hierarchical architectures, and 1D nanorods can be selectively prepared. More interestingly, the photoluminescence color of codoped Eu3+ and Tb3+ lanthanum 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate phosphors can be easily tuned from red, orange, yellow, green-yellow to green by changing co-doping concentration of activator ions, making the material has potential applications in building minioptoelectronic devices, biomedicine, and color display fields. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.