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  • Impurity control with the precise measurement of alumina powders synthesized by hydrolysis method
  • Khos-Erdene Khishigbayar1, Yun-Gon Moon1, Eun Ji Bae1, Kwang Bo Shim2 and Cheol Jin Kim1,*
  • 1 Research Institute for Green Energy Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University, Jinjudaero 501, Jinju, Korea 2 Division of Materials Science & Engineering, Hanyang University, Wangsimni-ro 222, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea
Abstract
The boehmite precursors with high surface area have been obtained using aluminum isopropoxide (AIP) and deionized water as starting materials and have been transformed into α-alumina after annealing at 1200oC for 2 hrs. Aluminum isopropoxide was purified with hydrolysis reaction with isopropyl alcohol for 1 hr by stirring at 120 rpm at 80oC. A highly selective and very sensitive spectrophotometric method was used to determine the trace amounts of each element in the synthesized alumina samples.

Keywords: Alumina, Aluminum isopropoxide, Boehmite precursor, Sol-gel method, Interfering effect.

This Article

  • 2013; 14(2): 168-171

    Published on Apr 30, 2013