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BULLETIN OF THE CHINESE CERAMIC SOCIETY ›› 2021, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (9): 3105-3113.

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Influence of HNO3 on Particle Size of AlOOH Sol Prepared by Sol-Gel Method

DUAN Ning1, ZHANG Xiangtai1, LU Chenglong2, ZHANG Yinfeng1,2, LI Chongrui1   

  1. 1. School of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China;
    2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Mine Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation, Hubei Polytechnic University, Huangshi 435003, China
  • Received:2021-03-23 Revised:2021-04-23 Online:2021-09-15 Published:2021-10-08

Abstract: To obtain an alumina filter membrane with a controllable pore size, AlOOH sol was prepared by the sol-gel method with aluminum isopropoxide used as the raw material and HNO3 as the peptizer. The influence of the amount of HNO3 on the particle size distribution of AlOOH colloidal particles was studied through nano-particle size analysis and Zeta potential measurement. The results show that when the ratio of HNO3 to aluminum isopropoxide R(n(HNO3):n(Al(C3H7O3)3)) is in the range of 0.2 to 0.7, the average particle size of the colloidal particles increases with the increase of R, from 66.69 nm (R=0.2) to 138.80 nm (R=0.7). The full width at half maxima (FWHM) of the particle size distribution of the colloidal particles increased from 144.62 nm to 267.74 nm. The reason for the increase of the particle size of AlOOH sol isŃt the agglomeration of particles, but the increase of the hydrolysis reaction constant of aluminum isopropoxide, which increases the total amount of the intermediate products per unit volume involved in the polycondensation reaction, thereby promoting the growth of AlOOH colloidal particles.

Key words: sol-gel method, AlOOH sol, nitric acid, particle size, hydrolysis reaction constant

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