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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 1970-1979Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2014.08.122
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Powders: chemical preparation; Spectroscopy; Optical properties; CeO2
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Development of the Republic of Serbia [III45007, III45018, ON171032]
- SASA project [F-134]
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The effects of common precursors used in the synthesis of CeO2 nanopowders were investigated, and the structural and spectral properties of the resulting products were compared. Two cerium (III) salts, i.e., Ce(NO3)(3)center dot 6H(2)O and CeCl3 center dot 7H(2)O, and two cerium (IV) salts, i.e., Ce (SO4)(2)center dot 4H(2)O and (NH4)(2)Ce(NO3)(6) were applied. The proposed procedures for the CeO2 preparations were realizdd using the same hydrothermal treatment conditions. The products were characterized using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetric (TG) analysis, and the morphology was determined using scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The spectral properties of the obtained nanopowders were characterized by FT-IR, Raman scattering and UV-vis spectroscopy. The results revealed the influence of the precursors on the crystallinity, crystallite size, band gap energy, morphology and purity of the synthesized samples. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. All rights reserved.
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