Complex multi-metal catalysts require several stages in their preparation. These are: co-mixing, co-precipitation, milling and sol-gel, drying, dehydroxylation, and calcination and sometimes regeneration of the hydroxide by rehydration. These processes require thermal analysis (DTA, TGA, DSC) and accompanying off gas analysis, plus one or more of these: XRD, XPS, SEMEDS, FTIR and UV-VIS. In this study, hydrotalcite, hopcalite and mixed systems were prepared and guided by the above characterization techniques. The systems were initiated by mixing the chlorides or nitrates followed by hydrothermal treatments to produce the hydroxides which were further treated by washing, drying, and calcination. The thermal analysis was critical to guide the preparation through these stages and when combined with structural determination methods considerable understanding of their chemical and physical changes was obtained. The correlations between preparation and characterization will be discussed.
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Baksi, A., Cocke, D. L., Gomes, A., Gossage, J., Riggs, M., Beall, G., & McWhinney, H. (2016). Characterization of copper-manganese-aluminum-magnesium mixed oxyhydroxide and oxide catalysts for redox reactions. In Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2016 (pp. 151–158). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48210-1_18
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