Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Studyon Thermal Analysis Behavior of Nanocrystalline Brookite TiO2

YE Xisheng; SHA Jian; JIAO Zhengkuan; PENG Zifei+; ZHANG Lide+   

  1. Department of Physics; Zhejiany University Hanyzhou 310027 China;+Institute of Solid State Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei 230031 China
  • Received:1996-10-08 Revised:1996-11-13 Published:1997-08-20 Online:1997-08-20

Abstract: Using DTA measurement on nanocrystalline brookite TiO2 sample, we found two endothermic peaks on DTA curve. From XRD analysis of the original nanocrystalline TiO2 and its heat-treating samples, we obtained the following results: the irst
endothermic peak (peak A) corresponds to the desorption of physical or chemical absorption; the second one (peak B) is elated to the first order phase transition from brookite to anatase then to rutile, and this structural phase transition is neficial
to the growth of nanocrystallilne grains.

Key words: nanocrystalline TiO2, DTA, XRD, first order phase transition