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Investigations on the Hydrothermal Synthesis of Pure and Mg-Doped Nano-CuCrO2

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Abstract

This paper presents some investigations on the hydrothermal synthesis of nano-CuCrO2. Several successively altered synthesis protocols are used to investigate effects of changing the mineralizer amount, lowering reaction temperature and addition of a reducing agent. As a result modified protocols for the hydrothermal synthesis of pure and Mg-doped CuCrO2 are presented. Different washing and annealing steps are used to perform a comparative XRD-study on these materials.

DOI 10.11648/j.nano.s.2014020601.17
Published in American Journal of Nano Research and Applications (Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Functional Materials

Page(s) 53-60
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Keywords

Delafossite, CuCrO2, Hydrothermal Synthesis

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