Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (11): 2159.

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Dispersion of CuCl2 into NaY Zeolite Studied by Positrons

ZHU Jun1, WANG Shao-Jie1, LUO Xi-Hui2   

  1. 1. Department of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;
    2. Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Fushun 113001, China
  • Received:2001-10-30 Online:2002-11-24 Published:2002-11-24

Abstract: A series of samples, prepared from mechanical mixtures of CuCl2 with NaY zeolite and resulting in the dispersion of CuCl2, was studied by positron annihilation spectroscopy. We measured the positron lifetime spectroscopy as a function of the weight ratio of the CuCl2-NaY zeolite heated at 140 ℃ for 1 h as well as at 450 ℃ for 4 h, respectively. We also measured it as a function of the heated temperature of 1 h, and as a function of the time heated at 300 ℃ for CuCl2-NaY(mass ratio 0.01). All lifetime spectras were resolved into five(or four) components, in which the third, the fourth and the fifth components were related to the annihilation in β cage, supercage and interface void, respectively. The experimental results showed that positron annihilation spectroscopy was sensitive to probe the change of the dispersion of a few of CuCl2 in NaY zeolite, and there was much CuCl2 remained on the outside surface of NaY after heated at high temperature for a long time even for a few of CuCl2.

Key words: Positron annihilation spectroscopy, Copper chloride, Zeolite

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