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- Chelating agent effects in the synthesis of mesoscopic-size superconducting particles
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
- 0928-0707
- Several routes and procedures have been used in these last years as an effort to achieve single-phase mesoscopic-size superconducting samples. In this paper, the effects of using citric acid (CA), tartaric acid (TA) and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) as chelating agents and ethylene-glycol (EG) as polyhydroxy alcohol were studied in order to establish conditions to avoid the occurrence of BaCO(3) undesirable secondary phase in YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7-delta) (YBCO). Thermal evolution of intermediate compounds formed during the calcinations process by the use of different chelating agents was traced using thermogravimetric and spectroscopic methods. The obtained results indicated that the polymer breakdown of samples prepared using EDTA occurs at higher temperatures than others chelating agents and also reduces the occurrence of BaCO(3) secondary phase as studied by X-ray diffraction measurements. Furthermore, the magnetic response of the mesoscopic-size YBCO specimens obtained was verified showing that samples present different superconducting response.
- 1-May-2008
- Journal of Sol-gel Science and Technology. Dordrecht: Springer, v. 46, n. 2, p. 201-207, 2008.
- 201-207
- Springer
- polymeric precursors
- superconductors
- mesoscopic size materials
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10971-007-1673-0
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- http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/19088
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