Editors: | F. Kongoli, M. Delferro, P. S. Halasyamani, M. A. Alario-Franco, F. Marquis, A. Tressaud, H. Kageyama |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2023 |
Pages: | 144 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-989820-86-5 (CD) |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
In transition metal fluorides, the fairly strong ionic character of the M-F bonding between fluoride and metal allows a better understanding of most of their electronic properties such as conductivity, transport properties, optical behavior, multiferroism. For example the varied observed magnetic bahiviors: ferro-, antiferro-, ferri-, low-dimensional- magnetisms, can be interpreted easily following the Goodenough superexchange rules[1, 2]. The physicochemical properties of transition metal fluorides can generally be inferred from the types of bonds occurring in the structural networks and connected with the magnetic structures [3].
Inorganic fluorinated materials are found as components in many applications, including energy storage and conversion, photonics, electronics, medicinal chemistry, etc [4]. The strategic importance of these materials will be illustrated by several examples taken from various scientific domains: Fluoride materials used as electrodes in Li-ion batteries and in catalysis / Nanocrystalline fluorides derived from fluorite- (CaF2) or tysonite- (LaF3) types used as solid electrolytes in All-solid-state batteries utilizing the high mobility of F- anions / Rare-earth based fluorides used as up- and down-conversion luminophores, at the micro- or nanoscale / Multiferroic d-transition metal fluorides derived from the perovskite, i.e. layered BaMF4 or TTB-K3Fe5F15, in which magnetism and ferroelectricity coexist / Fluorine-based superconductors obtained by F-doping in cuprate systems La2CuO4 and Sr2CuO3 or in F-doped oxypnictide LnFePnO1-xFx [5].
Finally, solid-state inorganic nanofluorides are used in many other advanced domains such as dye-sensitized solar cell, transparent conducting films, solid state lasers, nonlinear optics, UV absorbers, frequency doubling. Their role is also decisive in medicine and biotechnologies, where nano-crystals of doped rare-earth fluorides can be used as theranostic nano-agents integrating both imaging probes and therapeutic media, and are therefore able to perform diagnostic and therapy within a single nano-object.