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The local structure of titania/zirconia colloids has been investigated using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). The colloids were produced by:
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• hydrolysing a mixture of titanium and zirconium alkoxides, and peptising the resulting hydrolysate with nitric acid (homogeneous);
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• hydrolysing a titanium alkoxide, and peptising the resulting hydrolysate with aqueous zirconium (IV) nitrate solution (heterogeneous).
The final titania/zirconia and metal oxide/nitrate mole ratios were 16.0 and 10.0, respectively.
The results of SANS contrast variation experiments are described. The minimum-contrast points for the homogeneous and heterogeneous colloids, determined using either the known analytic form of the scattering at q=0 or the scattering invariant, gave similar results, which differed significantly from the expected value. These differences were attributed to the sorption of nitrate counter-ions and hydroxyl species on the surface of the colloids. In both cases, the scattering at minimum contrast was consistent with a fractal network of uni-dimensional zirconia, with a typical diameter of ∼1.5 nm. The results infer that in the homogeneous colloids, the zirconia is segregated within the matrix of the titania crystallites (on ∼1 nm scale), whereas in the heterogeneous colloids, the zirconia is segregated on the surface of the titania crystallites (on ∼10 nm scale).
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Bartlett, J.R., Gazeau, D., Zemb, T., Woolfrey, J.L. (1997). Counter-ion adsorption and homogeneity of TiO2/ZrO2 nanoparticles from SANS contrast variation. In: Rosenholm, J.B., Lindman, B., Stenius, P. (eds) Trends in Colloid and Interface Science XI. Progress in Colloid & Polymer Science, vol 105. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0110963
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