White-light-emitting materials have attracted considerable attention because of their applications, such as large-surface emitting devices and displays. However, simply mixing nanoparticles would result in uneven color. Nanocables are expected to improve the chemical stability and color uniformity. Herein we demonstrate the synthesis of Eu2O3/ZnO nanocable arrays embedded in anodic alumina template via a versatile, simple, and cheap method. In order to control the composition of the cable with low cost, a two-step synthesis including an electric field deposition and a sol-gel template approach is used to fabricate the nanocable. The product is investigated by x-ray powder diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, selected area electron diffraction, and photoluminescence (PL) spectrum. The results show that ordered Eu2O3/ZnO nanocable arrays with an average inside diameter of 20–40 nm and wall thickness of 20–40 nm were prepared. By adjusting the excitation wavelength, change of the emitting color of the cables from blue to white could be obtained. Energy and charge transfer were found by investigating the electronic transition and recombination in the PL process. These arrays are promising for applications in display, white phosphors, and ultraviolet detectors owing to the special optical properties. And this method may be of much significance in the synthesis of nanocables with the controllable composition.

We develop a strategy to investigate bridge role of O-related defects in the neighbor of Eu3+ in energy transfer (ET). By solvothermal reactions and following annealing process, Eu3+ doped ZnO nanocrystal is synthesized. After low-temperature annealing, Eu3+ ions occupy substituted sites of ZnO. High temperature annealing results in self-purification process—the separation of Eu3+ ions from ZnO lattice and generation of Eu2O3 precipitate phases. However, in this case, the proportion of individual Eu2O3 particles is extremely low if they are separated. The precipitate phases have paralleled edges and parallel to (011¯1¯) plane of ZnO. By self-purification separation, these O-terminated planes are easy to couple with Eu3+ ions, and form Eu3+ trap state. In order to maintain hexa-coordinate of Eu3+ ions, many O-related vacancies and interstitial defects are generated in the interface of ZnO/Eu2O3, among which interstitial O (Oi) in the neighbor of Eu3+ ions plays an important role in balance charge and ET. Thus, it is not strange to observe enhanced luminescence peak in self-purified samples.

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BaNd2Ti3O10 has been considered as a promising thermal barrier coating (TBC) candidate material, which reveals many advantages over the widely used TBC material of yttria partially stabilized zirconia, such as lower thermal conductivity, better high-temperature capability, and higher resistance to environmental deposits corrosion. In this study, the hot corrosion behavior of BaNd2Ti3O10 in Na2SO4 + V2O5 molten salt at 900 °C and 1000 °C is investigated. Exposed to the salt for 4 h at 900 °C, BaNd2Ti3O10 pellets had an obvious reaction with the salt, forming corrosion products of NdVO4, TiO2, and BaSO4, and the reaction layer was ~30 μm, beneath which no salt trace could be found. Prolonging the corrosion time to 20 h, the type of the corrosion products had no change. At an elevated corrosion temperature of 1000 °C for 4 h, the corrosion products were still NdVO4, TiO2, and BaSO4, but NdVO4 revealed a significant growth, which fully covered the pellet surface. The mechanisms by which the corrosion reaction between BaNd2Ti3O10 and the molten salt occurred were discussed.