Abstract
Microstructures is an international peer-reviewed, open access, online journal. The journal of Microstructures publishes articles covering new research and developments, perspectives, and reviews related to the microstructures of materials, including, but not limited to metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, crystals, glasses, biomaterials, interfaces and nanomaterials.
Highlights
Metal halides have been researched in detail as a result of their structural and functional diversity, which has resulted in many important and interesting optoelectronic applications, such as photovoltaics, photoelectricity, nonlinear optics and photoluminescence[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]
Metal halides are normally obtained by solution or hydrothermal methods, where water can play an important role in determining their structures and optoelectronic properties
Single crystals of K6Sn4F12I20.5H2O were obtained by a hydrothermal method using the raw materials of 1 g (0.027 mol) of NH4F, 1 g (0.006 mol) of KI and 1 g (0.004 mol) of SnCl22H2O dissolved in 4 mL of deionized water
Summary
Metal halides have been researched in detail as a result of their structural and functional diversity, which has resulted in many important and interesting optoelectronic applications, such as photovoltaics, photoelectricity, nonlinear optics and photoluminescence[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. Metal halides are normally obtained by solution or hydrothermal methods, where water can play an important role in determining their structures and optoelectronic properties. By introducing water molecules to BiF3, Liu et al.[18] successfully regulated the optical birefringence by changing the coordination environment of Bi3+. Further investigation into the role of water molecules in the modulation of metal halide properties is essential
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