Robust Yellow-Violet Pigments Tuned by Site-Selective Manganese Chromophores
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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