Influence of Eu valence on the optical activity of BaTiO decorated with CaF synthesized by microwave-assisted hydrothermal method.

Inorganic hybrid materials have promising applications in absorbers and for the photon harvesting of solar irradiation, such as in DSSC photoanodes. Moreover, investigation of the interactions between the photoanode constituent materials is extremely important, since it is known that the properties of the materials are strongly dependent on the nucleation and growth process. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to synthesize a system consisting of a synergic combination of two inorganic hosts, BaTiO and CaF, synthesized together through a microwave-assisted hydrothermal method, which allows single-phase materials to be obtained after short synthesis times and at low temperatures.