Synthesis and structural characterization of high purity dicalcium silicate
摘要
The sol-gel method synthesized powders composed only of dicalcium silicate at a calcination temperature ranging from 800 °C to 1000 °C. XRD quantitative characterization indicated that higher temperatures enhance the purity of the β-silicate dicalcium monoclinic crystal system, with the mass fraction of β-dicalcium silicate in the monoclinic lattice increasing from 39.4% at 800 °C to 48.56% at 1000 °C while the mass fraction of α-dicalcium silicate in the hexagonal lattice decreases from 60.6% at 800 °C to 51.44% at 1000 °C. The purity of β-dicalcium silicate can reach up to 97% when the temperature increases to 1500 °C. The particle size of dicalcium silicate synthesized at 1000 °C is approximately 10 to 15 μm. It exhibits the dicalcium silicate characteristic spherical grain morphology, plate grain morphology, and other grain morphologies resulting from quenching. During the quenching process, oxygen vacancies are produced because of an insufficiency of oxygen, leading to alterations in atomic coordination.