synthesis and characterization of neodymium oxide in silica matrix by solgel protocol method合成和表征二氧化硅矩阵的氧化钕solgel协议的方法.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Research Letters in Physics Volume 2008, Article ID 237023, 4 pages doi:10.1155/2008/237023 Research Letter Synthesis and Characterization of Neodymium Oxide in Silica Matrix by Solgel Protocol Method Surender Duhan,1 Paveen Aghamkar,1, 2 and M. Singh1 1 Materials Science Lab, Department of Applied Physics, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science Technology, Hisar 125001, India 2 Materials Science Lab, Department of Physics, Chaudhry Devi Lal University, Sirsa 125055, India Correspondence should be addressed to Surender Duhan, surender6561@yahoo.co.in Received 4 February 2008; Accepted 6 May 2008 Recommended by Yue Wu Formation of nanocrystalline rare earth was prepared by solgel route, using tetra-ethoxysilane and Nd (NO3 )3 as precursor materials and HCl as a catalyst. The prepared samples were submitted to thermal treatments at temperature 500◦C (5 hours) ◦ ◦ and 800 C (10 hours). Structural changes were investigated by XRD, FTIR spectroscopy, and SEM. At 800 C (10 hours) resulted in the formation of cubic Nd2 O3 nanocrystallites with average size ∼ 20 nm. Copyright © 2008 Surender Duhan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTION applications, requires a better understanding of the phase diagrams and interionic interactions of the binary oxides. There is growing interes