Textural properties study of Mg-Al layered double hydroxide with different molar ratios and upon hydrothermal treatments

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Paulo Demétrios da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciência dos materiais; Adsorção; Cristalização
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/10730

Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) belongs to a class of ceramic materials that present structure formed by stacked layers of double metals hydroxides and an anion into the lamellar space. They present a large variety of applications possibilities, as industrial, environment, medicine, among others. Non-calcined Mg-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) with molar ratio, x = Al / (Mg + Al), 0.20, 0.25 and 0.30 were synthesized using co-precipitation method, followed by hydrothermal treatment at a fixed temperature 80°C and different aging from 2 to 35 days. The material obtained was characterized by XRD, IR, TG, SEM and EDS. The samples crystallinity was evaluated and particle size was calculated using Scherrer equation. Sorption of anionic acid blue 25 and reactive blue 4 dyes from aqueous solution was investigated for some of the 0.25 molar ratio samples. The purpose of this research was to study the effect of hydrothermal treatment aging conditions on textural properties of synthetic hydrotalcite with different molar ratios and propose a mathematical function to predict crystallite size and crystallinity. This function takes just two of many parameters in consideration: hydrothermal treatment aging time and molar ratio. The obtained as-synthesized samples with a molar ratio 0.20 and 0.25 showed good crystallinity for all the samples. On the other hand the third samples with molar ratio 0.30 showed poor crystallinity, a pronounced shift in the correspondent basal planes peaks 003 and 006, and a broadening in all peaks. The shift in the basal planes was shown to be statistically significant to the others. A non-expected result was found in disagreement with literature: a new crystalline phase was observed in two 0.20 molar ratio samples. MEV and EDS results indicate the existence of a probable amorphous phase in the 0.30 molar ratio samples. The amorphous phase would explain the reduction in crystallinity of this series samples. Just the function to predict the crystallinity was obtained and showed in a 3D and hypsometric graphics. This function may be used to predict a characteristic of a synthesized LDH for an industrial application, like adsorption.