Abstract
This research is focused on the condensation and phase transformation of NiO-TiO2, Co1-XO-NiO, and Co1-XO-MgO solid solution via dynamic laser ablation condensation and high temperature annealing.
TiO2 rutile nanospheres with enhanced solid solution of NiO were synthesized via very energetic pulse laser ablation on clamped Ni/Ti target in oxygen for a very rapid heating/cooling, and hence pressure effect. Upon electron irradiation, the NiO-dissolved rutile (r) were partially transformed into 2(01 ) commensurate superstructure and Ni2(1+x)Ti1-xO4 spinel (s) following the crystallographic relationship [111]r//[012]s; (10 )r//(200)s. Alternatively, random NiTiO3 nanodomains were formed from amorphous regions in such a rapid decomposition process.
In addition, the dense fluorite-type (f) derived TiO2 condensates dissolved up to 5 at% Ni2+ of the cations were synthesized via the same route. The nanocondensates less than 20 nm in size are nearly cubo-octahedral in shape and tended to transform martensitically to monoclinic (m) baddeleyite-type following the crystallographic relationship (100)f//(110)m; [001]f//[001]m. The condensates twice larger in size, with considerable matrix constraint, are nearly spherical in shape and consist of mosaic m-twin variants following complicated crystallographic relationships with each other and with the relic f-phase: (010)f//( 20)m; [001]f//[001]m. The charge and volume compensating oxygen vacancies due to NiO dissolution in the dense TiO2 condensates could facilitate the relaxation and amorphization process.
Further more, pulse laser irradiation of Ni, Co, and Co-Ni (or Ni-Co) targets in an oxygen background gas produced nanocondensates with rock-salt type structure. Analytical electron microscopic observations indicated that such nanocrystals are cubic in shape for NiO and cubo-octahedral for Co1-xO and Ni1-xCoxO. The nanocrystals coalesced predominantly with {100} or {111} facets to form nano chain aggregates or closer packed manner. The Co1-xO was more or less oxidized as Co3-
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0624107-222718 |
| Date | 24 June 2007 |
| Creators | Huang, Chang-Ning |
| Contributors | Shuei-Yuan Chen, Dershin Gan, Liuwen Chang, Po-We Kao, New-Jin Ho, Pouyan Shen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0624107-222718 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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