Sol-Gel Synthesis of Highly Stable Nano Sized MgO from Magnesium Oxalate Dihydrate

Abstract

A sol-gel method was used to synthesize a highly stable form of MgO from magnesium oxalate dihydrate. The sol-gel products were characterized using simultaneous thermogravimetric analysis (STA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and UV-Visible light spectroscopy (UV-Vis). From the XRD analysis, all the MgO samples showed a single face-centered cubic phase. FESEM micrographs showed a crystallite size ranging from 10 nm to 59 nm. The size of the MgO crystallites increased with increasing temperatures. The crystallite size of the MgO is still relatively small, that is, below 100 nm even when the precursor was calcined at a higher temperature of 950 °C and a longer time of 36 h. Such results indicated that the growth of the crystallites is slow for this route of synthesis. The morphologies of the MgO samples are varied from the all spherical of the lower temperature to the more cubic shape with less agglomeration of the higher calcined samples. The band gap energy of the MgO samples also increased with temperature.

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