S. Ekambaram et Kc. Patil, RAPID SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF FEVO4, ALVO4, YVO4, AND EU3-DOPED YVO4(), Journal of alloys and compounds, 217(1), 1995, pp. 104-107
Fine particle FeVO4, AlVO4, YVO4 and Y0.95Eu0.05VO4 have been prepared
by the combustion of aqueous solutions containing corresponding metal
nitrate, ammonium metavanadate, ammonium nitrate and 3-methyl-5-pyraz
olone. The solutions containing the redox mixtures, when rapidly heate
d at 370 degrees C, ignite and undergo self-propagating, gas-producing
, exothermic reactions to yield fine particle metal vanadates. Formati
on of crystalline vanadates was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction
patterns, Al-27 nuclear magnetic resonance, IR and fluorescence spectr
a.