Synthesis of Mg-Al and Zn-Al-layered double hydroxide nanocrystals using laser ablation in water
- National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, (United States)
- Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
In this paper, we report our results on the synthesis of Mg-Al and Zn-Al-layered double hydroxides using the laser ablation in the liquid technique. To prepare these layered double hydroxides (LDH) we first began with the laser generation of a Mg (or zinc) target submerged in deionized water and then ablated an aluminum target submerged in the previously prepared Mg-deionized water suspensions (Mg-dw) to produce Mg-Al LDH and in Zn-dw to prepare Zn-Al LDH. In these ablation tests, the Mg ablation duration was selected to vary from 5 to 60 min, while the Al ablation duration was kept constant at 30 min for all samples. The generated Mg-Al LDH was a gel-like and well crystallized nanoparticles of a rod-like shape and were arranged in a well-organized pattern. When the Mg ablation duration between 25 and 35 min, the synthesized nanocrystals were stoichiometric with a formula of Mg6Al2(OH)(18)4.5 (H2O), the interlayer distance (d((0 0 3))-spacing) was 7.8 angstrom and the average grain size was 8.0 nm. The synthesized Zn-Al LDH revealed various lamellar thin plate-like nanostructures of hexagonal morphologies. The average diameters of these structures was about 500 nm and the thickness of a single layer was approximately about 6.0 nm. The XRD diffraction peaks were indexed in hexagonal lattice with a(o) = 3.07 angstrom and c(o) = 15.12 angstrom. These indexes were (002), (004), and (008) and the corresponding interlayer distances, d-spacing (angstrom), were 7.56 (002), 3.782 (004), and 1.891 (008), respectively.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy (FE)
- OSTI ID:
- 1014752
- Report Number(s):
- NETL-TPR-2349; PII: S0143816608002510
- Journal Information:
- Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 47, Issue 6; ISSN 0143-8166
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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