Answer to Question #120322 in Inorganic Chemistry for Yuki

Question #120322
Explain the observation that the diffraction peaks in nanoparticles of ZrO2are extremely broad but these sharpen remarkably as the material is heated.
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Expert's answer
2020-06-05T07:29:09-0400

The reason is simрle. X-ray peak is derived from the lattice sum over the entire crystal atoms. In ideal crystals, the sum is over infinite number which generate delta function on coherent spectral wavelength. Nano particles have much less atoms hence the lattice sum is not able to converge to a diffraction line but

bronden out. The smaller the particle the broad the diffraction peak. Therefore the brodening can be used to measure the particle size.

However, in calculating the particle size, intrisic instrumental width must be deducted from the measurements by root square difference.


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