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US 5,314,641 AGranted
Production of crystallites of cerium/lanthanum/terbium phosphates from insoluble rare earth salts
AssigneeRhone-Poulenc Chimie
InventorsMarie-Pierre Collin, Denis Huguenin, Anne-Marie Le Govic
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Abstract
Needle-shaped solid crystallites of specific LaCeTb phosphates, well suited for the production of green phosphors therefrom, are essentially pure white in color after calcination at 900.degree. C. and have the formula (I): La.sub.x Ce.sub.y Tb.sub.(1-x-y) PO.sub.4 (I) in which x and y are numbers, with x ranging from 0.4 to 0.6 and x+y being greater than 0.8.
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A process for the production of needle-shaped crystallites of a cerium lanthanum terbium phosphate having the formula (I):
- La.sub.x Ce.sub.y Tb.sub.(1-x-y) PO.sub.4 (I)
- in which x and y are numbers, with x being in a range of from 0.4 to 0.6 and x+y being greater than 0.8, the LaCeTb phosphate crystallites having lengths in the range of from 50 nm to 200 nm and widths in the range of from 10 nm to 50 nm comprising (a) admixing a phosphate containing not more than one unneutralized acidic functional group with an aqueous suspension of a cerium lanthanum terbium oxalate or of a mixture of lanthanum, cerium and terbium oxalates to form a reaction mixture, (b) heating and maintaining the reaction medium thus formed at a temperature of at least 70.degree. C., and (c) separating the resulting precipitate from said reaction medium and, optionally, drying same.
A process for the production of a cerium lanthanum terbium phosphate having the formula (I):
- La.sub.x Ce.sub.y Tb.sub.(1-x-y) PO.sub.4 (I)
- in which x and y are numbers, with x in the range of from 0.4 to 0.6 and x+y being greater than 0.8, the LaCeTb phosphate having an essentially monoclinic crystalline structure, the process comprising (a) admixing a phosphate containing not more than one unneutralized acidic functional group with an aqueous suspension of a cerium lanthanum terbium oxalate or of a mixture of lanthanum, cerium and terbium oxalates to form a reaction mixture, (b) heating and maintaining the reaction medium thus formed at a temperature of at least 70.degree. C., and (c) separating the resulting precipitate from said reaction medium so as to produce phosphate crystallites having lengths in the range of from 50 nm to 200 nm and widths ranging from 10 nm to 50 nm, optionally, drying same and (d) calcining the separated precipitate at a temperature greater than 600.degree. C.
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