Abstract
When polycrystalline TiO2 (rutile) pellets (∼1mm in thickness and ∼3 mm in diameter), dispersed with Pt particles to act as a catalyst, were heat-treated under certain conditions involving an applied electric field, new unusual microstructures were formed. The heat-treatment procedure was, as follows: 1) apply 1 volt dc field between two Pt electrodes inbedded into the pellet, 2) heat the sample to 750°C and begin cycling the sample between oxydizing (4% O2 in N2) and reducing (2% CO in N2) atmospheres at a rate of several cycles per hour, 3) lower the temperature to 600°C while continually cycling (200 cycle), and, 4) cool the sample to room temperature under the reducing atmosphere (1). The pellet was ion milled to a proper electron transparency and examined by means of a Siemens EM102 and a Philips EM400 TEM-STEM microscope.Some TiO2 grains in this sample exhibited no resolvable defect structure, except that the matrix appeared to be strained due to small defects (Fig. la).
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