Journal of Inorganic Materials, Volume. 38, Issue 10, 1200(2023)
Perovskite-structured praseodymium aluminum oxide (PrAlO3) exhibits high stability which has a site that can be doped with other rare earth ions, enabling it a promising new neutron-absorbing material matrix. However, the current research on PrAlO3 mainly focuses on the preparation methods of single crystal materials and their optical and magnetic property. Here, we firstly prepared a high-density perovskite phase PrAlO3 ceramics by solid-phase reaction synthesis using tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) as a liquid phase sintering aid, and then studied its microstructure and thermal property by XRD, SEM, push-rod technique, and laser flash method. The results showed that, by pre-synthesizing PrAlO3 powder at 1200 ℃ and adding 0.4%-1.0%(in mass) TEOS as a liquid phase sintering aid, PrAlO3 ceramic with a relative density higher than 99% could be obtained at around 1500 ℃, while the relative density of the product without sintering aids was only 96%. The thermal conductivity of PrAlO3 ceramic at a subcritical temperature of 360 ℃ was 4.99 W·m-1·K-1, superior to those of Dy2TiO5 and GdAlO3 ceramics, and its linear thermal expansion coefficient from room temperature to 800 ℃ was only 10.2×10-6 K-1. Moreover, the bending strength and Vickers hardness of PrAlO3 ceramics reached 95.55 MPa and 7.95 GPa, respectively, and the fluorescence spectrum exhibited characteristic emission peaks of Pr3+. This study shows that high-density perovskite phase PrAlO3 ceramics can be prepared by a convenient method with good thermophysical property and mechanical property. They exhibit good application prospects as a rare earth-based neutron-absorbing nuclear material.
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Junyi GU, Wugang FAN, Zhaoquan ZHANG, Qin YAO, Hongquan ZHAN.
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Received: Feb. 13, 2022
Accepted: --
Published Online: Mar. 6, 2024
The Author Email: ZHANG Zhaoquan (zhangzq@mail.sic.ac.cn), YAO Qin (yaoqin@mail.sic.ac.cn)