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Solvothermal synthesis of nanoscale BaTiO3 in benzyl alcohol-water mixtures and effects of manganese oxide coating to enhance the PTCR effect

Solvothermal synthesis of nanoscale BaTiO3 in benzyl alcohol-water mixtures and effects of manganese oxide coating to enhance the PTCR effect
Solvothermal synthesis of nanoscale BaTiO3 in benzyl alcohol-water mixtures and effects of manganese oxide coating to enhance the PTCR effect
A solvothermal method using various benzyl alcohol/water solvent mixtures has been used to synthesise phase pure nanocrystalline BaTiO3 samples with varying particle sizes in the range of 11-139 nm. The crystallite/particle size of BaTiO3 shows an overall decrease as the benzyl alcohol percentage increases, especially at higher percentages (≥ 80%) of benzyl alcohol. The decrease in crystallite/particle size can be attributed to the increased viscosity of the solvent mixture when raising the percentage of benzyl alcohol. A manganese oxide coating applied to the BaTiO3 surface had a negligible impact on its microstructure and morphology, but significantly enhanced the observed positive temperature coefficient of resistance. This research has been carried out to allow the development of smaller BaTiO3 particles for use in new battery, capacitor and thermistor technologies, whilst maintaining the PTCR property of the material that is typically observed in larger particle sizes.
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Zhang, Min, Caldwell, Thomas, Hector, Andrew L., Garcia-Araez, Nuria and Falvey, Joseph (2022) Solvothermal synthesis of nanoscale BaTiO3 in benzyl alcohol-water mixtures and effects of manganese oxide coating to enhance the PTCR effect. Dalton Transactions. (doi:10.1039/D2DT03307K).

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A solvothermal method using various benzyl alcohol/water solvent mixtures has been used to synthesise phase pure nanocrystalline BaTiO3 samples with varying particle sizes in the range of 11-139 nm. The crystallite/particle size of BaTiO3 shows an overall decrease as the benzyl alcohol percentage increases, especially at higher percentages (≥ 80%) of benzyl alcohol. The decrease in crystallite/particle size can be attributed to the increased viscosity of the solvent mixture when raising the percentage of benzyl alcohol. A manganese oxide coating applied to the BaTiO3 surface had a negligible impact on its microstructure and morphology, but significantly enhanced the observed positive temperature coefficient of resistance. This research has been carried out to allow the development of smaller BaTiO3 particles for use in new battery, capacitor and thermistor technologies, whilst maintaining the PTCR property of the material that is typically observed in larger particle sizes.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 December 2022
Published date: 6 December 2022
Additional Information: Funding Information: The authors thank EPSRC for support under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (EP/R021295/1) and for an early career fellowship to NGA (EP/N024303/1). The XPS data collection was performed at the EPSRC National Facility for XPS (“HarwellXPS”), operated by Cardiff University and University College London, under Contract No. PR16195. Raw data used in preparation of the figures in the article and supplementary information are available at https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2473 .

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Local EPrints ID: 473376
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/473376
ISSN: 0300-9246
PURE UUID: edf84902-fae5-4b70-bdf5-4ed4945e41be
ORCID for Min Zhang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3107-0856
ORCID for Andrew L. Hector: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-2163
ORCID for Nuria Garcia-Araez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9095-2379

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Date deposited: 17 Jan 2023 17:36
Last modified: 30 Aug 2024 01:57

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Author: Thomas Caldwell
Author: Joseph Falvey

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