A study on electrical conductivity of chemosynthetic Al2O3–2SiO2 geoploymer materials
✍ Scribed by Xue-Min Cui; Guang-Jian Zheng; Yao-Cong Han; Feng Su; Ji Zhou
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 595 KB
- Volume
- 184
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-7753
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✦ Synopsis
Al 2 O 3 -2SiO 2 amorphous powders are synthesized by sol-gel method with tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and aluminum nitrate (ANN) as the starting materials. The microstructure and phase structure of the powders are investigated by SEM and XRD analysis. Geopolymer materials samples are prepared by mechanically mixing stoichiometric amounts of calcined Al 2 O 3 -2SiO 2 powders and sodium silicate solutions to allow a mass ratio of Na 2 O/Al 2 O 3 = 0.4, 0.375, 0.35, 0.325, 0.288, 0.26, 0.23 or 0.2 separately, and finally to form a homogenous slurry at a fixed H 2 O/Na 2 O mole ratio = 11.7. The results show that the synthetic Al 2 O 3 -2SiO 2 powders have polycondensed property and their compressive strengthes are similar to that of nature metakaolin geopolymer materials. The results also show that the water consumption is not the main influencing factor on electrical conductivity of harden geopolymer materials but it can intensively affect the microstructure of geopolymer materials. In addition, the electrical conductivity of harden geopolymer sample is investigated, and the results show that the geopolymer materials have a high ionic electrical conductivity of about 1.5 × 10 -6 S cm -1 in air at room temperature.
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