Cerium-Doped Iron Oxide Nanorod Arrays for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.

In this work, a simple one-step hydrothermal method was employed to prepare the Ce-doped FeO ordered nanorod arrays (CFT). The Ce doping successfully narrowed the band gap of FeO, which improved the visible light absorption performance. In addition, with the help of Ce doping, the recombination of electron/hole pairs was significantly inhibited.

[Luminescence properties of Eu3+/Dy3+ coating ZnO nanocrystals].

Some kinds of phosphors were synthesized with Eu/Dy coating ZnO nanocrystals by co-precipitation approach derived from Zn(AC)2 2H2O, NaOH as precursors. The crystal structure and size were characterized by the X-ray diffraction Photoluminescence(PL) measurements show an intense red luminescence at 612 nm caused by transition of Eu3+ ions in ZnO:Eu3+ and intense luminescence band at 484 and 575 nm caused by transition of Dy3+ ions in ZnO:Dy3+. The results show that the energy transfer was realized from the host to the rare earth ions.