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Properties of BaTiO3 confined in nanoporous Vycor and artificial opal silica
- Source :
- Processing and Application of Ceramics, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 215-223 (2010)
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- National Library of Serbia, 2010.
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Abstract
- Using the sol-gel technique, BaTiO3 was embedded into nanoporous Vycor and artificial vitreous opal silica for the first time. About 50 vol% of the pores was filled. In case of the Vycor glass (pore diameter 4-6 nm) only amorphous phase was revealed by XRD, IR reflectivity and Raman spectra. After additional gradual annealing, no crystallization was achieved. Chemical reaction with the SiO2 skeleton started at ~1000 K. The room-temperature IR and Raman spectra clearly show characteristic vibrational modes of the ferroelectrically distorted TiO6 octahedra without any long-range order. In case of the opal matrix (densely packed silica spheres, pore diameter up to ~50 nm), crystallization of the ferroelectric BaTiO3 appeared in coexistence with the amorphous phase, but the penetration depth of the crystalline BaTiO3 was limited. From the apparent temperature independence of the effective wide-frequency dielectric response due to the essentially temperature independent effective soft mode stiffened to ~100 cm-1, we can deduce that no macroscopic percolation of the crystalline BaTiO3 has appeared in our opal matrix. Nevertheless, Raman spectra bring evidence of a diffuse ferroelectric phase transition in the opal-BaTiO3 composite.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Annealing (metallurgy)
Mineralogy
02 engineering and technology
Soft modes
01 natural sciences
law.invention
lcsh:TP785-869
symbols.namesake
law
0103 physical sciences
Crystallization
010306 general physics
Nanocomposite
Nanoporous
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Effective dielectric properties
Ferroelectricity
lcsh:Clay industries. Ceramics. Glass
Chemical engineering
Confined BaTiO3
Percolation
Ceramics and Composites
symbols
Stiffened soft mode
0210 nano-technology
Raman spectroscopy
Porous silica
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Details
- ISSN :
- 24061034 and 18206131
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Processing and Application of Ceramics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....76184b32bf16ff55603176d038d2306a
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2298/pac1003215n