Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Phase Transformation and Infrared Absorption Spectra of Amorphous and Crystalline Nano-Al2O3 Powder

GU Tangsheng; LIN Guangming   

  1. Department of Physics; Ahongshan University Guangzhou 510275 China
  • Received:1996-11-18 Revised:1996-12-30 Published:1997-12-20 Online:1997-12-20

Abstract: Amorphous and crystalline nano-Al2O3 powders prepared by directly oxidic method and room-temperature hydrolytic method, using aluminium amalgam as precursors,
were characterized by XRD, TEM and DTA. It was found that the amorphous nano-Al2O3 powder only underwent γ→α transformation having no transition
phase, and the transformation process of crystalline nano-Al2O3 powder is γ→θ→α and incomplete. The IR measurements
were performed and the characteristic IR spectra of amorphous nano-Al2O3 nano γ-Al2O3 and nano θ-Al2O3 were obtained. The above results
were analyzed and discussed from viewpoints of low-temperature relaxation of amorphous nano-Al2O3 powder and lattice distortion of α-Al2O3.

Key words: nano-Al2O3 powder, amorphous, phase transformation,IR spectra, relaxation