T. Lopez et al., DTA-TGA AND FTIR SPECTROSCOPIES OF SOL-GEL HYDROTALCITES - ALUMINUM SOURCE EFFECT ON PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES, Materials letters, 31(3-6), 1997, pp. 311-316
Hydrotalcites (crystalline mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminum) wer
e synthesized by the sol-gel method at pH 10. The magnesium source was
magnesium ethoxide and the aluminum precursors were aluminum nitrate,
aluminum chlorate or aluminum sulfate. The resulting solids were char
acterized by infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermal analysis (DTA-TG
A). It was found that thermal stability depended strongly on aluminum
precursor in the following sequence: aluminum chloride > aluminum nitr
ate > aluminum sulfate.