Silica samples with embedded SnO2 nanoparticles have been produced by sol-gel method with a synthesis modified by the introduction of fluorinated silicon precursors. The structural features of silica network and SnO2 nanophase have been mapped inside the samples by means of confocal micro-Raman scattering spectroscopy. The results show that the detection of residual fluorine into the matrix as Si-F groups is accompanied by network dehydration, by intensity depletion of the D2 peak assigned to three-member rings of coordinated tetrahedra, and by SnO2 nanoparticles with much larger sizes than in fluorine-free material. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Raman study of fluorine effects on silica with embedded SnO2 nanoparticles
LAURIA, ALESSANDRO;LORENZI, ROBERTO;CHIODINI, NORBERTO;PALEARI, ALBERTO MARIA FELICE
2009
Abstract
Silica samples with embedded SnO2 nanoparticles have been produced by sol-gel method with a synthesis modified by the introduction of fluorinated silicon precursors. The structural features of silica network and SnO2 nanophase have been mapped inside the samples by means of confocal micro-Raman scattering spectroscopy. The results show that the detection of residual fluorine into the matrix as Si-F groups is accompanied by network dehydration, by intensity depletion of the D2 peak assigned to three-member rings of coordinated tetrahedra, and by SnO2 nanoparticles with much larger sizes than in fluorine-free material. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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