99624-20-1Relevant articles and documents
Template-free synthesis of nanoporous gadolinium phosphonate as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agent
Pramanik, Malay,Shieh, Fa-Kuen,Alshehri, Saad M.,Alothman, Zeid Abdullah,Wu, Kevin C.-W.,Yamauchi, Yusuke
, p. 42762 - 42767 (2015)
A new series of organic-inorganic hybrid porous gadolinium phosphonate (GdP) materials have been synthesized using benzene-1,3,5-triphosphonic acid as a phosphonic acid linker through a simple hydrothermal technique. The particle size and morphology are well controlled through the selection of suitable reaction conditions. The obtained materials exhibit very high specific surface area and crystalline pore walls with a triclinic structure having unit cell parameters a = 7.76 (3) ?; b = 8.60 (6) ?; c = 14.09 (7) ?; α = 100.08 (4)°; β = 84.23 (6)°; γ = 116.29 (6)°. The obtained GdP materials are further used as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent with r1 and r2 values of 2.6 and 4.7 s-1 mM-1, respectively.
Self-assembled titanium phosphonate nanomaterial having a mesoscopic void space and its optoelectronic application
Pramanik, Malay,Patra, Astam K.,Bhaumik, Asim
, p. 5140 - 5149 (2013/04/10)
Here we report the synthesis of a new crystalline titanium phosphonate material (HTiP-7) having a self-assembled nanostructure and a mesoscopic void space without the aid of any surfactant or templating agent. The material has been synthesized hydrothermally through the reaction between benzene-1,3,5-triphosphonic acid (BTPA) and titanium(iv) isopropoxide at neutral pH at 453 K for 24 h. This hybrid phosphonate material has been thoroughly characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, N2 sorption, HR TEM, FE SEM, TG-DTA, FT IR and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopic studies. Two very well-known software packages, REFLEX and CELSIZ unit cell refinement programs, are employed to establish the triclinic crystal phase of this hybrid material (HTiP-7). Very tiny nanocrystals of HTiP-7 self-aggregated to form spherical nanoparticles of dimension ca. 25 nm together with a mesoscopic void space and good BET surface area (255 m2 g-1). The framework is thermally stable up to 650 K. The material showed excellent carrier mobility for photocurrent generation in the presence of a photosensitizer molecule (Rose Bengal). To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of a photon-to-electron energy transfer process over a dye doped titanium phosphonate nanomaterial.