Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Synthesis of Al2O3 Nanopowders Using Inorganic Salt and Its Physical Chemistry

ZENG Wen-Ming; CHEN Nian-Yi+; GUI Lin--Hua; WANG Jun; GAO Lian; GUO Jing-Kun   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute ofCeramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 China; +Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 China
  • Received:1997-12-31 Revised:1998-02-26 Published:1998-12-20 Online:1998-12-20

Abstract: Boehmite (γ-AlOOH) powder was first prepared by Sol-Freeze Drying method using cheap AlCl3·6H2O as raw materials, and then γ-Al2O3
nanopowder with the average diameter of 6nm and α-Al2O3 nanopowder with the mean diameter of 30nm were obtained by the calcination of the above
γ-AlOOH powder at 500 and 1100℃, respectively. The potential~pH diagrams of Al-H2O system at 25 and 90℃ were presented, separately. Thermodynamic analysis of the main reactions in the process of thermal
decomposition of Al(OH)3 was also made using Temkin-Schwarzman’s method and by means of regression analysis. Investigations of the potential-pH diagrams of
Al-H2O system and thermodynamic analysis of the thermal decomposition of Al(OH)3 provide a certain guide for the formation of boehmite sol and the
heat treatment of boehmite powder, respectively.

Key words: inorganic salt, synthesis, Al2O3 nanopowders, physicochemistry

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