Síntese e caracterizações estruturais e espectroscópicas de vidros e vitrocerâmicas contendo partículas metálicas usando óxido de antimônio (III) como agente redutor

Abstract

This Thesis deals with the preparation of glasses based on sodium polyphosphate, containing antimony (III) and copper (II) oxides. The presence of α-Sb2O3 reducing agent was responsible for redox processes: Cu 2+→ Cu+→ Cu0 during synthesis of the glasses at 1000°C. The results of X-ray absorption measurements near the K edge of Cu (XANES) and electronic spectroscopy provided valuable information on the presence of metallic particles in glasses with nanometric dimensions. This result shows the possibility of obtaining metallic Cu nanoparticles during the melting step of glass preparation, without the need for posterior treatments. The synthesis of the different crystal phases of antimony (III) oxide, i.e., α-Sb2O3, α-Sb2O4, β-Sb2O4 and β-Sb2O3, through different isothermal treatments enabled the study through Raman spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction. The ternary composition diagram for glass NaPO3-Sb2O3-CuO shows the different regions of vitreous domain. The spectroscopic study of glasses (0.9-x)NaPO3- xSb2O3-0,1CuO, containing Cu nanoparticles doped with 0.5 mol% of Er2O3 was realized by fluorescence spectroscopy using different exciting radiation: 532, 633 and 785 nm. The Raman mapping of these glasses showed the intensification of fluorescence of Er3+ ions, both the effect of changing the chemical environment around the Er3+ ion (crystallization) as the energy transfer from the excited surface plasmons for energy rare-earth ion levels (SEF - Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence). Additionally, glasses containing Cu nanoparticles showed satisfactory results of use as SERS substrates (Surface-Enhanced Resonance Spectroscopy), with the observed enhancement of the Raman signal of the vibrational modes of using phenylenediamine and the glass with x = 0.6 as substrate.