Abstract
Abstract In this work, zinc aluminate spinel powders were prepared by a fast, simple, eco-friendly and low-cost modified Pechini method using commercial gelatin as the organic precursor. The materials were calcinated at 600, 700 and 800 °C and characterized by thermogravimetric analysis, in situ and ex situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2-adsorption/desorption isotherms and scanning electron microscopy. The results showed that single phase ZnAl2O4 particles with spinel structure were successfully obtained resulting in a high purity, nanometric, homogeneous and mesoporous materials. The in situ XRD results showed that the crystalline spinel structure of ZnAl2O4 started forming at a temperature lower than 600 °C, revealing powders with crystallite size smaller than 40 nm, which increased with increasing the temperature (91% of increase between 600 and 800 °C). The effect of calcination time showed that the materials calcinated at 600 °C for 3 h presented the higher percentage of crystallite growth due to the increase of crystallinity. The ZnAl2O4 samples retained their pore size up to 700 °C.
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