Effect of Carbon Matrix on the Size of Crystallites of Ni(OH)2 Synthesized from [Ni(NH3)6]Cl2
YU. A. ZAKHAROV1,2, A. N. VOROPAY2, V. M. PUGACHEV1, V. G. DODONOV1, A. V. SAMAROV2, Z. R. ISMAGILOV2,3
1Kemerovo State University, Ul. Krasnaya 6, Kemerovo 650043 (Russia) 2Institute of Coal Chemistry and Material Science, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. Sovetskiy 18, Kemerovo 650000 (Russia) 3Kemerovo Scientific Centre, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Sovetsky 18, Kemerovo 650000 (Russia)
Keywords: nickel hdyroxide, porous carbon, crystallites, nanostructured composites
Abstract
Nickel hydroxide is formed on the surface of porous carbon matrix as a result of decomposition of nickel ammine at a temperature of 90 °C in an open-type reactor under intense mixing of the reaction mixture. Porous carbon material obtained by means of high temperature carbonization of hydroquinone - furfurol mixture was used as a matrix. The result is the formation of nanostructured composite filled with the crystallites of anhydrous Ni(OH)2. Studies by means of X-ray diffraction and small-angle scattering of X-ray radiation showed that nickel hydroxide crystallites formed on the surface of carbon matrix have smaller size than the crystallites formed in solution without any matrix.
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