Aa. Vertegel et al., CRYOSOL METHOD - A NOVEL POWDER PROCESSING TECHNIQUE BASED ON ION-EXCHANGE PHENOMENA, Journal of materials research, 13(4), 1998, pp. 901-904
A novel technique has been suggested for synthesis of highly dispersed
oxide powders. The method is based on the treatment of aqueous soluti
on of a multivalent metal nitrate (or chloride) by anion-exchange resi
n in the OH- form, The presented technique yields a stable colloid sol
ution of the corresponding hydroxide with concentration up to 1 M. The
subsequent freeze-drying and thermal dehydration results in very fine
powder of metal oxide. The individual and multicomponent oxides obtai
ned by the cryosol method were shown to possess unusual properties due
to their high dispersity and chemical homogeneity.