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Role of water during AlN-hydrolysis-assisted solidification in ceramic suspensions studied by proton nuclear magnetic resonance T2 relaxation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
Abstract
Using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR), we have studied the thermally activated hydrolysis of aluminum nitride admixed into Al2O3 aqueous suspensions. We paid special attention to the formation of aluminum hydroxide and its role in binding the host ceramic particles into a stiff solid matrix. The water–proton NMR spin-spin relaxation time (T2) was continuously measured as a function of the time of the AlN hydrolysis in the host Al2O3 ceramic suspension. T2 was found to correlate with an increasing fraction of bound water at the surface of the formed hydrogel and so provided us with information about the gel-surface growth during the hydrolysis process. These results are in good agreement with the observed time- and composition-related increases in high-frequency impedance for the analyzed suspensions.
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