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  • Effects of dopant materials on the characteristics of the nano-sized Co3O4 powders prepared by spray pyrolysis
  • Seo Hee Ju and Yun Chan Kang*
  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong Gwangjin-gu Seoul 143-701, Korea
Abstract
Pure and M-doped Co3O4 (M = Cr, Fe, Mg, Zr) powders with a nanometre size and a narrow size distribution were prepared by spray pyrolysis from a spray solution with citric acid and ethylene glycol. The precursor powders with a hollow and thin walled structure were turned to nano-sized Co3O4 powders after post-treatment. The mean size of the pure Co3O4 powders post-treated at a temperature of 600 oC was 77 nm. On the other hand, the mean sizes of the doped Co3O4 powders with a doping concentration of 3 mol.% were changed from 24 to 63 nm. The Mg-doped Co3O4 powders had the minimum mean size. The mean sizes of the Mg-doped Co3O4 powders with doping concentrations of 1 and 5 mol.% were 60 and 61 nm. The mean sizes of the Mg-doped Co3O4 powders with a doping concentration of 3 mol.% post-treated at temperatures of 700 and 800 oC were 63 to 102 nm.

Keywords: Spray pyrolysis, Cobalt oxide, Nano powders, Gas phase reaction, Black matrix, Display material.

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  • 2010; 11(5): 527-532

    Published on Oct 31, 2010

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