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Abstract
Given their excellent optical properties, the lanthanide-containing nanomaterials are fast emerging as promising candidates for highly sensitive thermometry. This work describes the thermometric performance of high quality tetragonal LiYF4: Yb3+, Tm3+ NPs synthesized using home-made anhydrous precursors [Ln(TFA)3(monoglyme)] and [Li(TFA)(monoglyme)] (Ln = Y, Tm, Yb; TFA = trifluoroacetate) in a hot-injection method. These NPs show excellent constant relative sensitivity (>1%.K−1) and stability over a wide range of temperature (300–500 K), indicating that they are good candidates for temperature-sensing applications requiring a wide range of temperature. In addition, reactions between Gd(TFA)3(H2O)3 and Li(TFA)(H2O) in the presence of N-methyl substituted amino alcohols were also investigated in relation with their use as precursors for LiGdF4 matrix-based upconverting nanoparticles. One of these reactions resulted in the isolation of a homometallic cluster [Gd4(OH)4(TFA)8(mdeaH2)3(THF)]. 2 THF (1, mdeaH2 = N-methyl diethanolamine), which was structurally characterized. The difficulty in getting LiGdF4 NPs from the thermal/microwave co-decomposition of lithium and gadolinium trifluoroacetates are discussed.
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