Abstract

Metal precipitation occuring during internal reduction of various mixed oxides, such as magnesia or alumina, doped with more noble transition metal oxides, is investigated for different doping contents, reaction temperature and driving forces. The precipitate morphology developing inside the solid oxide matrix and the corresponding orientation relationships between the metal and the oxide phase are analysed by transmission electron microscopy. The evolution of precipitate shape across the reduction scale is interpreted in terms of ageing of the metal inclusions; the various morphologies identified are ascribed to different stages of nucleation, diffusional growth and final equilibration.

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