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1 Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Materials Research Bulletin journal homepage: Application of nanostructured Ca doped CeO 2 for ultraviolet filtration Laurianne Truffault a, *, Minh-Tri Ta a, Thierry Devers a, Konstantin Konstantinov b, Valérie Harel a, Cyriaque Simmonard a, Caroline Andreazza c, Ivan P. Nevirkovets b, Alain Pineau c, Olivier Veron a, Jean-Philippe Blondeau a a Institute PRISME, site de Chartres, EA 4229 Université d Orléans, 21 rue de Loigny la Bataille, Chartres, France b Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia c Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée, UMR 6619-CNRS, 1b rue de la Férollerie, Orléans Cedex 2, France ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Received 11 September 2009 Received in revised form 20 January 2010 Accepted 4 February 2010 Available online 12 February 2010 Keywords: A. Nanostructures B. Chemical synthesis C. X-ray diffraction C. Electron microscopy D. Optical properties Calcium doped CeO 2 nanoparticles with doping concentrations between 0 and 50 mol% were synthesized by a co-precipitation method for ultraviolet filtration application. Below 20 mol% doping concentration, the samples were single-phase. From 30 mol%, CaCO 3 appears as a secondary phase. The calculated CeO 2 mean crystallite size was 9.3 nm for the pure and 5.7 nm for the 50 mol% Ca-doped sample. Between 250 and 330 nm, the absorbance increased for the 10, 30, and 40 mol% Ca-doped samples compared to the pure one. The band-gap was found to be 3.20 ev for the undoped, and between 3.36 and 3.51 ev for the doped samples. The blue shifts are attributed to the quantum confinement effect. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy showed that the Ce 3+ atomic concentration in the pure sample was higher than that of the 20 mol% Ca-doped sample. ß 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Recently, CeO 2 has been the subject of many studies regarding its use as a catalyst [1], polishing agent [2], or potential material for ultraviolet (UV) filtration [3,4]. In the UV radiation range reaching the Earth s atmosphere, the ultraviolet type B sub-range (UVB, nm) is already well filtered by nanostructured TiO 2 in sunscreen cosmetic products. The ultraviolet type A (UVA) radiation is divided into two domains. The first one, called short UVA, comprises the most energetic and thus the most harmful type of UVA radiation, whose wavelengths are between 320 and 340 nm. These wavelengths are implicated in skin cancers [5]. The second domain, called long UVA, comprises the less energetic radiation, whose wavelengths are between 340 and 400 nm. This domain of UVA radiation is responsible for early skin aging. The need for new materials able to filter the short UVA radiation has increased in the field of cosmetic products. With a band-gap of 3.2 ev, good transparency in the visible range, and no known toxicity, nanostructured CeO 2 appears to be a promising inorganic material for use as a UV filter in sunscreen cosmetic products. In several previous studies [6,7], the doping of CeO 2 with different elements such as Zn and Mg has been successfully used to shift the * Corresponding author. address: laurianne.truffault@gmail.com (L. Truffault). material s band-gap value because of their effects on electronic transitions. Another significant problem for the pure CeO 2 is its photocatalytic activity. As a result, it could oxidise under light and degrade the other compounds present in the cream. This characteristic makes the pure material incompatible with use in cosmetic products. In fact, the CeO 2 fluorite type structure is not stable, because the Ce 4+ ionic radius is not large enough to reach the ideal value of for the ionic radius ratio, r(m n+ )/r(o 2 ), of a metallic element (M) in an MO 8 coordination oxide. Thus, Ce 4+ has the tendency to be easily transformed into Ce 3+, which has a larger ionic radius. This reaction is accompanied by release of oxygen to equilibrate the charges, which leads to the above-mentioned negative effect. A number of papers [8 10] have reported that doping with divalent elements can reduce the photocatalytic activity of CeO 2, and that the most efficient of these is Ca. The replacement of Ce 4+ by a cation with a lower valence and a larger ionic radius, such as Ca 2+, stabilises the fluorite structure [10]. Although several results have been already published regarding the effects of Ca doping, there are few studies that are devoted to the effects of doping over a large concentration range. Different chemical methods can be used for the synthesis of pure or doped CeO 2. Among them, the electrochemical deposition method [11], hydrothermal synthesis [12 14], the pyrrolidone solution route [15,16], the sol gel method [17,18], the soft solution method [8 10], and the co-precipitation technique [7,19] can all be /$ see front matter ß 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi: /j.materresbull
2 528 L. Truffault et al. / Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) listed. The co-precipitation method has several advantages: it is simple, cost-efficient, and gives reproducible results. In this study, we have used the co-precipitation method to synthesise calcium-doped CeO 2 powders with doping concentrations in the range of 0 50 mol%. We have studied systematically the effects of doping on the structural and optical properties of CeO Experimental procedures 2.1. Synthesis of pure and Ca-doped CeO 2 Pure and calcium-doped CeO 2 powders were synthesized by the co-precipitation method. For the synthesis of the pure material, a 1.15 mol L 1 cerium nitrate solution (Ce(NO 3 ) 3 6H 2 O, Alfa Aesar, 99.5%) was mixed with 5 mol L 1 sodium hydroxide (NaOH, Alfa Aesar, 98%) at ambient temperature. The resulting precipitate was recovered by centrifugation and washed three times with deionised water. A 27% (w/w) hydrogen peroxide solution was then added at a temperature of 50 8C. The oxidised precipitate was centrifuged and washed with deionised water before filtration with a folded filter and calcination at 500 8C for 6 h in a porcelain crucible (VWR) under air. The calcium doped CeO 2 powders were synthesized by adding a calcium chloride solution (CaCl 2, Alfa Aesar, 97%) to the initial solution with a varying concentration, depending on the expected calcium doping molar concentration. Beige powders were obtained at the end of the experimental procedure Analyses used TGA DTA Before calcination, the pure sample was characterized by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) with a TG DTA Setaram instrument. The sample was heated from 20 to C at a rate of 10 8C/min under argon FTIR Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra of the pure sample before and after calcination (mid-infrared source) were collected using a Vertex 70 Fourier transform infrared spectrometer from Bruker in attenuated total reflection (ATR) mode in the range of cm 1 with a resolution of 4 cm XRD The crystalline structure of the pure and doped samples was identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD) using the Cu Ka wavelength (l = Å) of an X Pert Pro X-ray diffractometer from PANalitycal in the Bragg-Brentano configuration. The samples were analysed in the range of with a step of and a time per step of 90 s. X Pert HighScore + software was used to analyse the data. The Scherrer formula presented below was used for the most intense peak, which was fitted by a pseudo-voigt function, to determine the mean crystallite size: Tc ¼ kl B cos u ; with B ¼ B obs B std ; (1) where Tc is the mean crystallite size, k is a constant shape factor (set at 0.9 in our experiments; a value suitable for a cubic crystal), l is the wavelength of the incident X-rays, B obs is the observed fullwidth at half-maximum (FWHM) of the considered peak, B std is the instrumental contribution to the FWHM, and u is the value of the diffracted angle. Rietveld type refinement was used to determine the lattice constants TEM The morphology and the particle sizes were characterized using a CM 20 transmission electron microscope (TEM) from Philips. The samples were dispersed in methanol by ultrasonication. A drop of the suspension was then laid on a carbon-coated grid and dried under a lamp to let the methanol evaporate. The accelerating voltage used in TEM was 200 kv. A statistical grain size analysis was realised from the TEM images by measuring the diameter, or the biggest dimension for non-spherical particles, of at least 200 particles per sample. Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) was performed to determine the crystallinity of the structure. The interplanar spacings were evaluated from the SAED patterns using the following formula: ll ¼ Rd; (2) where ll is a constant of the microscope, R is the ring radius, and d is the interplanar spacing. The constant of the microscope was calculated by measuring the radius of a gold standard pattern whose interplanar spacings are well known UV vis absorption spectroscopy The absorption spectra of the samples were recorded with a V 530 ultraviolet visible spectrophotometer from Jasco in the range of nm using quartz cells 1 cm in length. The samples were dispersed in ethanol at a concentration of mol L 1 (3 mg in 25 ml) by ultrasonication for 30 min. Some pure ethanol was taken as a reference. The absorption coefficient, a, was calculated from the absorption spectra using the following equation: a ¼ A r ; (3) l c where A is the absorbance, r is the real density of CeO 2 (set at 7.28 g cm 3 for our calculations), l is the length of the curve, and c is the concentration of the CeO 2 suspension. The band-gap values were calculated by plotting (ahn) 2 as a function of hn, where hn is the photon energy. The intersection of the extrapolated linear portions with the abscissa axis gives the band-gap value XPS X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) of the pure and 20 mol% calcium-doped samples were collected using a SPECS system installed in a high-vacuum chamber with the base pressure below 10 8 mbar; the X-ray excitation was provided by Al Ka radiation with the photon energy hn = ev at a high voltage of 12 kv and a power of 120 W. The spectra were collected at the pass energy of 20 ev in the fixed analyser transmission mode. The powder under analysis was dusted onto an adhesive carbon tape. An identical carbon tape with a reference Cu sample on it was used to determine the charge shift. The peak positions for Ce 3+ and Ce 4+ obtained in this way are in good agreement with those reported in the literature [20]. It is known that the XPS spectrum of pure CeO 2 has six peaks for the 3d line due to strong hybridization of the oxygen 2p valence band with the Ce 4f orbital, which makes quantitative analysis of the reduction of Ce atoms from the 4+ to the 3+ state extremely complicated [21,22]. We have chosen the following method to determine relative concentrations of the Ce 3+ and Ce 4+ cations from the Ce 3d 5/2 line. First, the background was subtracted using the Shirley approximation, and then the 3d 5/2 peak structure was fitted by five components (i.e., three peaks originating from the 4+ state, and two peaks originating from the 3+ state) using the commercial CasaXPS software package. The relative atomic concentrations of the cations under question were determined as the ratio of the respective peak areas (i.e., the total area of the three
3 L. Truffault et al. / Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) peaks assigned to the Ce 4+ component and the total area of the two peaks assigned to the Ce 3+ component). The XPS spectra of the samples were measured before and after bombardment of the samples using an Ar ion source with ion energy of 5 kev. 3. Results and discussion Fig. 1 shows the TGA/DTA curves of the pure sample before calcination. The total mass loss was 18.1%. According to the following thermal decomposition formula: CeO 2 2H 2 O! CeO 2 þ 2H 2 O ðvaporþ, the mass loss associated with the structural water loss was 17.3%. The additional loss of mass of 0.8% obtained from the TGA curve can be attributed to a loss of moisture. The presence of a large endothermic peak whose maximum is located at 118 8C confirms the dehydration reaction. From a temperature of 650 8C, the remaining mass is stable. This indicates that the thermal decomposition is over. Fig. 2 shows the FTIR spectra of the pure sample before and after calcination. Both spectra present a large absorption band located at around 500 cm 1, which cannot be completely observed on the graph. This absorption band can be attributed to the Ce O stretching vibration [11,23,24], and corresponds to the F1u IR active mode of the CeO 2 fluorite structure. Both spectra contain a large band whose maximum is located at 3300 cm 1. This band can be attributed to the O H stretching vibration [11], and indicates the presence of water. This confirms the presence of moisture and structural water in the sample before calcination. This band is attenuated in the spectrum collected after calcination. Its presence in the spectrum after calcination indicates the presence of moisture absorbed after the calcination process. The band located at around 1640 cm 1 is attributed to the H O H bending vibration [16], and also indicates the presence of water. In previous studies, the bands located at around 725, 840, and 1063 cm 1 have been 2 attributed to the CO 2 asymmetric stretching vibration, CO 3 bending vibration, and C O stretching vibration, respectively [25]. These bands are linked to the presence of atmospheric CO 2 on the metallic cations [16] and the formation of carbonate-like species on the particle surfaces [23] as a consequence of the reaction of atmospheric CO 2 with water and sodium hydroxide during the synthesis. The bands located at 1340 and 1500 cm 1 are attributed to carbonate species vibrations [23,25] and are clearly attenuated after calcination, indicating that the carbonate species have been decomposed by heat treatment. The XRD patterns of the pure and the doped CeO 2 nanoparticles are shown in Fig. 3. Below 20 mol% doping concentration, the Fig. 1. TGA/DTA curves of pure sample before calcination. Fig. 2. FTIR spectra of pure sample before and after calcination. Fig. 3. X-ray diffraction patterns of pure (a), and 10 mol% (b), 20 mol% (c), 30 mol% (d), 40 mol% (e), and 50 mol% (f) Ca-doped CeO 2 nanoparticles. samples are single-phase. They only contain the CeO 2 phase, which has a fluorite type cubic structure. At a doping concentration of 30 mol% and above, the samples contain a CaCO 3 phase, in addition to the CeO 2 phase. Rietveld type refinement has been used to determine the lattice constants. The lattice parameter for the pure sample is (2) Å. This value is close to that reported in the standard data: a = Å (JCPDS ). The dependence of the CeO 2 lattice parameter on the calcium doping concentration is presented in Fig. 4. This indicates that the CeO 2 lattice parameter increases linearly with the calcium doping until the concentration is 30 mol%. This increase shows that the volume of the CeO 2 cell has increased due to the Ca 2+ effective ionic radius (1.12 Å), which is larger than that of Ce 4+ (0.97 Å) [26]. The fact that the samples contain only the CeO 2 phase below 30 mol% doping concentration, and the increase of the CeO 2 lattice parameter with the calcium doping concentration to 30 mol%, indicate the formation of a substitution solid solution between the CeO 2 cell and the calcium, where Ca 2+ ions take the place of Ce 4+ ions. Calculations made with the Scherrer formula show that the CeO 2 crystallites have nanoscale dimensions. Their sizes are between 9.3 nm for the pure sample and 5.7 nm for the 50 mol%
4 530 L. Truffault et al. / Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) Table 1 Comparison of mean crystallite size measured by XRD to mean particle size measured by TEM for pure CeO 2, 20 mol% Ca-doped CeO 2, and 50 mol% Ca-doped CeO 2. Sample Mean crystallite size measured by XRD (nm) Mean particle size measured by TEM (nm) Standard deviation for TEM results CeO 2 0 mol% Ca CeO 2 20 mol% Ca CeO 2 50 mol% Ca Fig. 4. Dependence of the CeO 2 lattice parameter on the calcium doping concentration. Fig. 5. Dependence of the CeO 2 mean crystallite size as measured by XRD on the calcium doping concentration. calcium-doped sample. The dependence of the CeO 2 mean crystallite size as measured by XRD on the calcium doping concentration is presented in Fig. 5. The graph shows that the CeO 2 mean crystallite size decreases with increasing doping concentration. Nevertheless, the decrease seems to reach a threshold from a doping concentration of 30 mol%. Basically, the addition of a dopant into a crystalline structure affects the crystallite growth kinetics. Before inserting itself into the CeO 2 structure, the calcium is first located between the CeO 2 grain boundaries and thus disturbs the normal growth of the CeO 2 crystallites. We can distinguish two domains in Fig. 5, corresponding to two modes of the CeO 2 crystal size change. The first domain corresponds to a calcium doping concentration between 0 and 30 mol%. In this domain, the CeO 2 mean crystallite size decreases sharply with the calcium doping concentration. Above 30 mol%, the beginning of the second domain, the decreasing of the CeO 2 crystallite size becomes less pronounced because of the secondary phase formation. In Fig. 6, we present TEM images of the pure CeO 2 and the 50 mol% calcium-doped CeO 2 nanoparticles. Despite the ultrasonication, both images show that the crystallites tend to agglomerate and form aggregates. This tendency has already been reported by Phoka et al. [16]. Basically, nanoparticles have a natural tendency to agglomerate for two main reasons. First, the agglomeration is a more stable configuration from an energetic point of view. Then, nanoparticles tend to agglomerate to allow for crystallite growth. The results presented in Table 1 indicate that the mean crystallite sizes measured from the TEM images differ at most by 1 nm from those obtained by XRD. This means that the TEM results are consistent with those obtained by XRD. The crystallite size histograms of pure CeO 2, 20 mol% calcium-doped, and 50 mol% calcium-doped nanoparticles are shown in Fig. 7. For the three samples, the crystallite size is between 2 and 20 nm. The calcium doping causes a reduction in the number of crystallites belonging to the size range from 10 to 20 nm. It is noteworthy that the mean crystallite size for the 50 mol% Ca-doped sample obtained from the TEM images is bigger than that for the 20 mol% Ca-doped sample. This result seems at first to be inconsistent with the XRD results. However, the 50 mol% Cadoped sample contains the CaCO 3 phase, whose crystallite size is on average bigger than that of CeO 2. Since it is hardly possible to distinguish the CeO 2 crystallites from the CaCO 3 crystallites on a TEM image, we suggest that our measurements involve CaCO 3 crystallites, which thus explains the bigger mean crystallite size Fig. 6. TEM images of pure CeO 2 (a) and 50 mol% Ca-doped CeO 2 (b) nanoparticles.
5 L. Truffault et al. / Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) Fig. 7. Crystallite size histograms of (a) pure CeO 2, (b) 20 mol% Ca-doped, and (c) 50 mol% Ca-doped nanoparticles. obtained for the 50 mol% Ca-doped sample. The SAED pattern of pure CeO 2 nanoparticles is presented in Fig. 8. The interplanar spacings measured from this pattern correspond to the CeO 2 structure, and confirm the purity of the CeO 2 pure sample. Next, we consider the absorbance curves of the pure and calcium-doped samples (see Fig. 9). The absorbance curve of the CeO 2 pure sample is composed of one large band, whose maximum is located at around 315 nm. For CeO 2, the fundamental absorption is due to a charge transfer between the full 2p (O) orbital and the empty 4f (Ce) orbital [3,6,15], which corresponds to an experimental band-gap value of 3.19 ev for the bulk [6]. For nanomaterials with particle sizes down to a few nanometers, the band-gap value is modified because of the quantum confinement effect. For spherical nanoparticles with an infinitely high potential energy Fig. 8. SAED pattern of pure CeO 2 nanoparticles. Fig. 9. Absorbance curves of 20 mol% (a), 50 mol% (b), 0 mol% (c), 30 mol% (d), 40 mol% (e) and 10 mol% (f) calcium doped CeO 2 nanoparticles.
6 532 L. Truffault et al. / Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) outside the sphere, the band-gap value is dependent on the particle radius R, and can be determined from the following formula [27]: E ¼ E g þ h2 1 þ 1 1:8e2 8R 2 m e m h 4pee 0 R where E g is the bulk band-gap, R is the radius of the nanoparticles, m e and m h are the effective masses of the electron and hole, respectively, and e is the relative dielectric constant of CeO 2. The above equation indicates that the band-gap value increases with decreasing particle radius R. This phenomenon can be observed on the absorbance curves of the calcium-doped samples. These curves are composed of one large band, but the maximum absorption is located at a lower wavelength (around 300 nm) than for the pure sample. This means that the doping causes a blue shift of the maximum absorption. This blue shift can be quantified by calculating both the theoretical bandgap values from the above equation and the experimental band-gap (4) values from the absorbance curves. Fig. 10(a) (e) shows the bandgap value extraction for the 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 mol% calciumdoped samples, respectively. We have calculated the theoretical band-gap values for each sample by taking E g =3.15eV, m e = m h = 0.4 m, where m is the mass of a free electron, and e =24.5[28], and by replacing R by the mean crystallite size obtained from the XRD results. Fig. 11 presents the calculated band-gap as a function of the calcium doping concentration, and Fig. 12 presents the experimental band-gap as a function of the calcium doping concentration. The calculated band-gap value of pure CeO 2 with a mean crystallite size of 9.3 nm is ev. From Fig. 13 one can see that this value increases with decreasing mean crystallite size, as expected according to Eq. (4). The experimental band-gap values are always higher than the theoretical ones, indicating that the mean crystallite size may have been over-valued for all the samples. The observed difference between the theoretical and the Fig. 10. Plot of (ahn) 2 as a function of energy for the 0 mol% (a), 10 mol% (b), 20 mol% (c), 30 mol% (d), 40 mol% (e), and 50 mol% (f) Ca-doped CeO 2 samples.
7 L. Truffault et al. / Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) Fig. 11. Plot of the calculated band-gap as a function of the calcium doping concentration. experimental values can thus be explained by the fact that the crystallite size chosen for the calculations is an average. As shown by the crystallite size histograms obtained from the TEM images, the crystallite size is in reality between 2 and 20 nm. The experimental band-gap value of the pure CeO 2 is 3.20 ev (369 nm), and is higher than the bulk experimental value. This blue shift of the band-gap value for CeO 2 nanoparticles (which has already been reported [3,15,16]) results in a change in the electronic band structure due to the quantum confinement effect [16]. For the calcium-doped CeO 2 nanoparticles, all the values are higher than 3.20 ev. This means that the calcium doping has increased the blue shift that already exists for pure CeO 2 nanoparticles compared to CeO 2 bulk. As one can infer from Fig. 9, there is no indication of any dependence of the absorbance intensity on the calcium doping concentration. Indeed, between 250 and 330 nm, the 10, 30, and 40 mol% Ca-doped samples absorb more UV radiation than the pure sample. The most harmful UVA radiation, i.e., the shortwavelength UVA radiation, is thus better filtered below 330 nm with these doping concentrations. Among the three samples cited above, the 10 mol% one is the most efficient between 265 and 325 nm. In fact, several factors affect the absorption properties of the doped sample in opposite directions. First, the doping with calcium should make the ceria unit cell more stable by tending to the value of for ideal ionic radius ratio, r(m n+ )/r(o 2 ), of a MO 8 coordination oxide. We could thus expect that the absorption Fig. 13. Plot of the calculated band-gap as a function of mean crystallite size. properties of the calcium-doped samples are decreased. As a result, the calcium-doped samples should be less sensitive to the UV radiation. Thus, the more calcium the sample contains, the more the absorbance should decrease. The crystallite size should affect the absorption capacities of the samples as well. The XPS spectra of the pure and the 20 mol% calcium-doped samples were measured before ion bombardment [cf. Fig. 14(a) and (c)], and after ion bombardment [cf. Fig. 14(b) and (d)]. The peaks in the energy interval between approximately 877 and 903 ev belong to the Ce 3d 5/2 level. There are three peaks (situated at , , and ev) that may be attributed to the cerium (IV) oxidation state, whereas the other two peaks (situated at and ev) may be attributed to the cerium (III) state [20]. The peaks from the different oxidation states overlap, making analysis of the structure extremely complicated. As is mentioned above, we performed deconvolution of the peak structure using the CasaXPS software package. In Fig. 14, the experimental spectra are shown as noisy curves, whereas the smooth dashed and solid peaks, obtained by fitting the experimental peak structure, characterize the Ce 3+ and Ce 4+ ions, respectively. The white line that fits the experimental curve corresponds to the sum of all the components. Using the components that belong to a definite oxidation state, one can quantify the relative concentrations of the Ce 3+ and Ce 4+ ions according to the relations: A Ce 3þ %Ce 3þ ¼ 100; A Ce 3þ þ A Ce 4þ A Ce 4þ %Ce 4þ ¼ 100; (5) A Ce 3þ þ A Ce 4þ Fig. 12. Plot of the experimental band-gap as a function of the calcium doping concentration. where A Ce 3þ and A Ce 4þ denote the total area of the Ce 3d 5/2 peaks for the (III) and (IV) oxidation states, respectively. The calculation shows that the concentration of Ce 3+ ions in the pure sample (37%) is higher than that in the doped sample (21%) before ion bombardment. This means that the Ce 4+ relative concentration in the calcium-doped sample (79%) is higher than that in the pure one (63%). The oxygen concentration is higher in the calcium-doped sample than in the pure one, too. We can conclude that the doped sample better approaches the CeO 2 ideal stoichiometry because it contains more Ce 4+ ions and more oxygen, and that the calcium doping has successfully made the CeO 2 structure more stable. Also, since the pure sample is not as stable as the doped sample due to its higher Ce 3+ relative atomic concentration, we can suppose that this material will be more easily excited by the UV radiation and react more strongly to this excitation. After the ion bombardment, the relative concentration of Ce 3+ has increased in both the pure (up to 51%) and in the doped (up to
8 534 L. Truffault et al. / Materials Research Bulletin 45 (2010) Fig. 14. XPS spectra of pure powder [panels (a), (b)], and 20 mol% calcium-doped powder [panels (c), (d)]. Spectra (a) and (c) are taken for the samples before ion bombardment; spectra (b) and (d) are taken after the bombardment. The black dashed and solid lines represent fitted peaks for the oxidation states (III) and (IV), respectively; the white line represents the sum of all the components. Dotted lines are for the Ce 3d 3/2 components (not considered here). 39%) samples. Nevertheless, the Ce 3+ relative ionic concentration remains higher after the bombardment in the pure sample than in the doped one. Possibly, the ion bombardment caused the observed reduction by changing Ce 4+ ions into Ce 3+ ions. In this case, the energy provided by the Ar beam could have broken the Ce-O bonds, leading to the formation of Ce 3+ ions. 4. Conclusions Pure and calcium doped CeO 2 nanoparticles with a calcium doping concentration between 0 and 50 mol% have been successfully synthesized by the co-precipitation method. The calcium doping modifies the structural and optical properties of pure CeO 2. Above a 30 mol% calcium doping concentration, the samples contain a CaCO 3 secondary phase and are not suitable for a use as a cosmetic product. The calcium doping causes a decrease in the mean crystallite size and increases the absorbance for the 10, 30, and 40 mol% Ca-doped samples between 250 and 335 nm. The 10 mol% Ca-doped sample is the most efficient between 265 and 325 nm. A blue shift of the absorption is observed first for the pure CeO 2 nanoparticle sample compared to the bulk CeO 2, and then for the doped samples compared to the pure sample. This blue shift allows for better screening of short UVA, the most harmful UVA wavelengths which are involved in skin cancers. Since the Ce 3+ relative atomic concentration has been found to be higher in the pure sample than in the doped samples, we can also conclude that the calcium doping successfully made the structure more stable. Another advantage of the calcium doping is the cost. Indeed, since cerium (III) nitrate hexahydrate is around five times more expensive than calcium chloride, doping CeO 2 with calcium allows one to decrease the final cost of the nanoparticle product. References [1] J. Kaspar, P. Fornasiero, M. Graziani, Catal. Today 50 (1999) [2] V.D. Kosynkin, A.A. Arzgatkina, E.N. Ivanov, M.G. Chtousta, A.I. Grabko, A.V. Kardapolov, N.A. Sysina, J. Alloys Compd (2000) [3] S. Tnunekawa, T. Fukuda, A. Kasuya, J. Appl. Phys. 87 (2000) [4] S. Tnunekawa, J.-T. Wang, Y. Kawazoe, A. Kasuya, J. Appl. Phys. 94 (2003) [5] A. Stary, C. Robert, A. Sarasin, Mutat. Res., DNA Repair 383 (1997) 1 8. [6] F. Chevire, F. Munoz, C.F. Baker, F. Tessier, O. Larcher, S. Boujday, C. Colbeau-Justin, R. Marchand, J. Solid State Chem. 179 (2006) [7] L. Yue, X.-M. Zhang, J. Alloys Compd. 475 (2008) [8] S. Yabe, M. Yamashita, S. Momose, K. Tahira, S. Yoshida, R. Li, S. Yin, T. Sato, Int. J. Inorg. Mater. 3 (2001) [9] R. Li, S. Yabe, M. Yamashita, S. Momose, S. Yoshida, S. Yin, T. Sato, Solid State Ionics 151 (2002) [10] S. Yabe, S. Tsugio, J. Solid State Chem. 171 (2002) [11] T. Wang, D.-C. Sun, Mater. Res. Bull. 43 (2008) [12] A.I.Y. Tock, F.Y.C. Boey, Z. Dong, X.L. Sun, J. Mater. Process. Technol. 190 (2007) [13] X. Lu, X. Li, F. Chen, C. Ni, Z. Chen, J. Alloys Compd. 476 (2009) [14] F. Zhou, X. Ni, Y. Zhang, H. Zheng, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 307 (2007) [15] C. Ho, J.C. Yu, T. Kwong, A.C. Mak, S. Lai, Chem. Mater. 17 (2005) [16] S. Phoka, P. Laokul, E. Swatsitang, V. Promarack, Mater. Chem. Phys. 115 (2009) [17] I. Skofic, S. Sturm, M. Ceh, N. Bukovec, Thin Solid Films 422 (2002) [18] Z.L. Liu, H.M. Yue, Y. Wang, K.L. Yao, Q. Liu, Solid State Commun. 124 (2002)
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