Cubic phase stabilization of Barium titanate nanorods by rapid quenching technique

Autor: Aswaghosh Loganathan, Victor Jaya Nesamony, Divinah Manoharan
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Materials Letters. 186:305-307
ISSN: 0167-577X
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2016.10.048
Popis: Stabilization of high temperature cubic phase of BaTiO3 at room temperature is established by rapid quenching of the surfactant assisted sonochemically synthesized BaTiO3 after calcination for 2 h at 800 °C. The quenched BaTiO3 is stabilized to cubic phase at room temperature in contrast to the BaTiO3 obtained by normal cooling at a rate of 1 °C/min, which exists in the tetragonal phase at room temperature. BaTiO3 prepared by the same synthetic procedure but two different heat treatment methods possesses almost similar morphology (i.e.) 1-dimensional nanorod structure but with different aspect ratio. Quenching prevents the low temperature phase transformation c→t from occurring by providing a narrow window of time in which the reaction is both thermodynamically favourable and kinetically accessible.
Databáze: OpenAIRE