Affiliation: | a Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China b Department of Material Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China c State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemistry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, People's Republic of China d Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-77, Japan |
Abstract: | We report strong visible photoluminescence (PL) at room temperature from BN nanoparticles encapsulated in ZSM-5. The investigation of powder X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, adsorption of N2, UV–Vis absorption, and PL spectra shows that BN nanoparticles have been successfully encapsulated in ZSM-5. Intense blue PL can be obtained from the BN/ZSM-5 sample. Analysis of PL spectra leads us to propose that the luminescence may originate from the bound excitons at the defects or impurities in the BN nanoparticles, a quasi-direct-gap semiconductor material transferred from indirect-gap BN by encapsulation in ZSM-5. |