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One-pot synthesis of YF3@silica core/shell nanoparticles
1Freiburg Materials Research Center, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 21, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany.
Abstract:
A new one-pot synthetic method for preparing core/shell YF3@SiO2 nanoparticles with different morphologies, from spherical to elongated structures ("pearl necklace"), is described; absorbance and photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals intrinsic but no extrinsic defects in the YF3.

