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Low Temperature Preparation of Strontium Barium Niobate Powders by the Aqueous Organic Gel Method

ZHAO Jiu-Peng1; LI Yao2; QIANG Liang-Sheng1; WANG Biao2; ZHANG He-Xin1   

  1. 1.Department of Applied Chemistry; Harbin Institute of Technology; Harbin 150001; China; 2.Center for Composite Materials; China
  • Received:2003-02-10 Revised:2003-04-15 Published:2004-01-20 Online:2004-01-20

Abstract: SrxBa1-xNb2O6(x=0.5) ceramic powders were synthesized by the aqueous organic gel routes. The desired
metal cations were chelated in a solution by using citric acid and ethylenediaminetertraacetic acid (EDTA) as the chelating agents. The
thermal decompostion of the metal carboxylate precursor gels was studied by TG/DTA and the products derived from calcinations of the gels at
different temperatures were characterized by XRD and TEM. The results reveal that tetragonal tungsten bronze-type structural SBN with fine
particle size can be achieved at 800℃. The influences of pH and molar ratio of citric acid: Nb cation on the formation of
homogeneous Sr-Ba-Nb precursor gels were also studied. pH=8 used during the preparation of Sr-Ba-Nb precursor gels was determined
by calculation of the conditional formation constant Kcf of Sr-EDTA and Ba-EDTA complexes.

Key words: strontium barium niobate ceramic powders, organic gel method, citric acid, pH value

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