Solution combustion synthesis of lithium orthosilicate as the tritium breeder: Effects of microwave power and fuel-to-oxidizer ratio on phase, microstructure and sintering

A review on the synthesis of metal oxide nanomaterials by microwave induced solution combustion

“…In addition, the thermal analysis revealed that the relative density of the ceramic embryos aer calcination at the sintering temperature of 1373 K was as high as 96%, which is an ideal material for tritiumaugmented ceramics. 56 Sundararajan et al group synthesized NiFe 2 O 4 and ZnFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles with average grain size ranging from 16 to 20 nm using microwave induced solution combustion method. 57 Mahmoud et al group successfully prepared NiFe 2 O 4 using metal nitrates and urea as starting materials by a microwaveinduced combustion method and investigated the effect of fuel-to-oxidizer ratio on their particle size during the combustion process.…”

“…In addition, the thermal analysis revealed that the relative density of the ceramic embryos after calcination at the sintering temperature of 1373 K was as high as 96%, which is an ideal material for tritium-augmented ceramics. 56 Sundararajan et al group synthesized NiFe 2 O 4 and ZnFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles with average grain size ranging from 16 to 20 nm using microwave induced solution combustion method. 57 …”

“…When the microwave output power was 1100 W, the content of Li 2 SiO 3 decreased to 5%, which improved the purity of the products. 56 Yathisha et al group synthesized prismatic zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures by microwave combustion method using zinc nitrate as precursor and ethylene glycol as solvent at different microwave powers (160, 320, 480, 640 and 800 W). XRD and FE-SEM results confirmed the dependence of grain size and growth of ZnO nanostructures on microwave heating power.…”