Abstract
Nanometric Bi 2O 3 powder was successfully synthesized by applying the method based on self-propagating room temperature reaction (SPRT) between bismuth nitrates and sodium hydroxide. X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) and Rietveld's structure refinement method were applied to characterize prepared powder. It revealed that synthesized material is a single phase monoclinic α-Bi 2O 3 (space group P2 1/ c with cell parameters a = 5.84605(4)Å, b = 8.16339(6) Å, c = 7.50788(6) Å and β = 112.9883(8)). Powder particles were of nanometric size (about 50 nm). Raman spectral studies conformed that the obtained powder is single phase α-Bi 2O 3. Specific surface area of obtained powder was measured by Brunauer–Emmet–Teller (BET) method.
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