%0 Journal Article 
%A Puerto Jiménez, María
%A Goma Jiménez, Daniel
%A Aguinaco Martín, Almudena
%A López Maya, Elena
%A Álvarez, Mayra G.
%A Pintado Caña, José María
%A Blanco Montilla, Ginesa
%A Bogeat-Barroso, Adrián
%T Band gap engineering of ceria nanostructures by incorporating nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ligands
%D 2024
%@ 1387-7003
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31733
%X A novel facile method to prepare ceria nanocrystals with well-defined cubic morphology and enhanced optical properties is herein disclosed. Both the decrease in the band gap and the appearance of absorption edges above 400 nm, which redound in a significant absorption of visible light, are accomplished by simply incorporating in situ different amounts of a typical chelating bidentate ligand, 1,10-phenanthroline, during the synthesis of these ceria nanocubes. Such a remarkable effect has been tentatively connected with the ability of this nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound to coordinate Ce3+ cations from the ceria precursor salt, thus yielding intermediate N 2p states along the band gap of the oxide.
%K Ceria
%K 1,10-Phenanthroline
%K Complex
%K Nanocubes
%K Optical properties
%~ Universidad de Cádiz