Abstract
The rational design of multifunctional inorganic pigments relies on the manipulation of ionic valence and local surroundings of a chromophore in structurally and chemically habitable hosts. To date, the development of environmentally benign and intense violet/purple pigments is still a challenge. Here we report a family of A3-xMnxTeO6 and A3-2xMnxLixTeO6 (A = Zn, Mg; x = 0.01-0.15) pigments colored by site-selective Mn2+O4 yellow and Mn3+O5-6 violet chromophores. Zn2.9Mn0.1TeO6 is intense bright yellow, comparable with commercial BiVO4, and has better near-infrared reflectivity (∼89%) in comparison to commercial TiO2. The codoped Li+ "activator" generates holes and charge-balanced Mn3+ (Mn3+O5-6), realizing a color transformation from yellow to the bright violet pigments of A3-2xMnxLixTeO6. The most vivid Mg2.8Mn0.1Li0.1TeO6 is probably the best violet pigment known to date, exhibits excellent chemical and thermodynamic stability, and demonstrates pressure-dependent stability up to 5-7 GPa, before a (reversible) phase transition to pink. Theoretical calculations revealed the correlation between site-preference occupancy and chromophore motifs and predicted a wide color gamut of pigments in Zn3TeO6-hosted 3d transition-metal ions other than manganese.
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