Ammonia induced precipitation of cobalt hydroxide: observation of turbostratic disorder

Cobalt hydroxide freshly precipitated from aqueous solutions of Co salts using ammonia, is a layered phase having a 9.17 Angstrom interlayer spacing. DIFFaX simulations of the PXRD pattern reveal that it is turbostratically disordered. (C) 2003 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.