In this work, a series of carbonate minerals including CaCO 3 , BaCO 3 and SrCO 3 have been prepared in H 2 O-ethylene glycol (EG) solution at room temperature, which further serve as hosts to prepare the phosphors doped with Eu 3+ . The as-obtained samples were characterized by means of XRPD, FESEM, and PL techniques. The experimental results reveal that the volume composition of mixed solvents and additives were crucial for producing samples with discriminating size, shape and phase. In addition, the luminescent properties of CaCO 3 : Eu 3+ , BaCO 3 : Eu 3+ , and SrCO 3 : Eu 3+ phosphors were briefly studied by excitation spectra, and emission spectra. Remarkably, many scientific merits involved in this study might appear as follows: (1) simply changing the solvent composition or adding additives in mixed solution can realize the crystal growth of carbonates with controlled size, shape and phase; and(2) the as-prepared phosphors doped with Eu 3+ could be directly crystallized from an aqueous solution at room temperature without subsequent calcinations.
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