Abstract
Transformation of nanocrystalline Mg(OH)2 to MgO under dynamic vacuum in a temperature range of 570−770 K was studied by TGA-GCMS, FTIR, HREM, XRD, helium pycnometry, and nitrogen adsorption at 77 K. Several processes are shown to occur during transformation including: (a) release of compounds chemisorbed during preparation of nanocrystalline Mg(OH)2 simultaneously with hydroxide−oxide transformation; (b) fragmentation of nanoparticles at temperatures lower than 670 K; and (c) re-crystallization and sintering of nanoparticles, whose mean size increases and relative number decreases rapidly with temperature above 670 K. A new phenomenon of decrease of the interlayer distance in MgO crystallites with increase of the nanoparticle size was observed.
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