YU Juan;WEI Yan;WANG Jigang
. 2011, 42(11): 2026-2029.
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Abstract:The hydrothermal synthesis method was employed to prepare the magnesium-aluminium layered double hydroxides (LDHs) by using Mg(NO3)2?6H2O and Al(NO3)3?9H2O as the raw materials. Considering the hydrogen bonding interactions existing in the LDHs, the co-solvents of polyhydric alcohols will have a great influence on the preparation of the LDHs. To investigate these effects, we respectively employed five kinds of solvents: pure water, water/ethanol, water/glycol, water/glycerin, and water/pentaerythritol. The microstructures and thermal properties of the prepared LDHs were contrastively investigated by XRD, SEM, IR, and DSC. With the increasing number of the hydroxyl groups in the co-solvents, the hydration levels of the crystal water in the LDHs were elevated. The interactions between the co-solvent and the LDHs affect the nucleation and subsequent growth of LDHs, resulting in the variation of crystallinity and thermal stability. The LDHs prepared using water/ethanol and water/glycol as solvent, respectively, have similar crystalline shapes to that synthesized with pure water. But for the LDHs respectively synthesized using glycerin and pentaerythritol as co-solvents, the crystalline shapes became irregular with smaller grain size and the aggregation of grains. In addition, as the number of the hydroxyl groups in the co-solvents is increased, the temperatures for releasing crystal water were elevated, but the corresponding temperatures for the dehydration of basic layer and the release of carbon dioxide were decreased.