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Reaction Mechanism of 0.80Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 -0.20PbTiO3 Ceramics Prepared by Semichemical Method

CUI Bin1,2; YANG Zu-Pei1; HOU Yu-Dong1; SHI Qi-Zhen2; TIAN Chang-Sheng1   

  1. 1. College of Materials Science and Engineering; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Xi an 710072; China; 2. Department of Chemistry; Northwest University/Shanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, Xi'an 910069, China
  • Received:2001-09-26 Revised:2001-11-20 Published:2002-07-20 Online:2002-07-20

Abstract: The semichemical method was developed for the synthesis of 0.80Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.20PbTiO3(0.80PMN-0.20PT) ceramics with pure perovskite phase. The precursors were prepared
by adding an aqueous Mg(NO3)2 solution rather than MgO to the alcoholic slurry of PbO, TiO2 and Nb2O5. The TG-DTG-DSC and XRD analysis show that the
mechanism in this method is different from those of the known columbite or conventional mixed oxide method. Mg(NO3)2 reacts with PbO to form a intermediate of Pb6O5(NO3)2
at milling and calcinations process. The activated PbO and Pb3O4 by the intermediate reacted with Nb2O5 to form an unstable B-deficient pyrochlore structure of Pb3Nb2O8,which progressively inserts magnesium oxide to transform into PMN-perovskite phase.

Key words: semichemical method, lead magnesium niobate, reaction mechanism, perovskite phase

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