TY - JOUR
T1 - Sol-gel synthesis and optical behavior of Mg-Ce-O nano-crystallites
AU - Kumar, Ashok
AU - Thota, Subhash
AU - Sivakumar, Sri
AU - Priya, Shashank
AU - Kumar, Jitendra
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Authors thank Institute of Critical Technology and Applied Sciences (ICTAS), Virginia Tech, for providing Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy facilities. This work was supported in part by SERB, Government of India (SB/FTP/ETA-243/2012).
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - The Mg-Ce-O powder are shown to contain periclase-type MgO and/or fluoride-type cerium oxide (CeO2) depending upon the composition (x) defined by Ce/(Ce + Mg) atomic ratio. Lattice contraction of pariclase phase of MgO (average crystallite size ∼8.8 nm) at Ce content of 'x' = 0.20 in comparison to pure MgO (crystallite size ∼9.5 nm) has been realized due to oxygen vacancy formation. The optical band gap values of CeO2 varies (3.0-3.2 eV) due to oxygen vacancy formation in CeO2 phase, crystallite size and/or Ce3+/Ce4+ ratio. Further, the addition of Ce has shown to reduce the physisorption and chemisorption of water significantly as reflected by (1) suppression of related absorption peaks and (2) absence of magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH)2, bands in Fourier transform infrared spectra.
AB - The Mg-Ce-O powder are shown to contain periclase-type MgO and/or fluoride-type cerium oxide (CeO2) depending upon the composition (x) defined by Ce/(Ce + Mg) atomic ratio. Lattice contraction of pariclase phase of MgO (average crystallite size ∼8.8 nm) at Ce content of 'x' = 0.20 in comparison to pure MgO (crystallite size ∼9.5 nm) has been realized due to oxygen vacancy formation. The optical band gap values of CeO2 varies (3.0-3.2 eV) due to oxygen vacancy formation in CeO2 phase, crystallite size and/or Ce3+/Ce4+ ratio. Further, the addition of Ce has shown to reduce the physisorption and chemisorption of water significantly as reflected by (1) suppression of related absorption peaks and (2) absence of magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH)2, bands in Fourier transform infrared spectra.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10971-013-3132-4
DO - 10.1007/s10971-013-3132-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84887319378
SN - 0928-0707
VL - 68
SP - 46
EP - 53
JO - Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology
JF - Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology
IS - 1
ER -