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María Guadalupe Sánchez-Loredo1,2, Salvador Antonio Palomares-Sánchez3, Gladis Judith Labrada-Delgado4
1Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Helmholtz-Institut Freiberg für Ressourcentechnologie, Chemnitzer Str. 40, 09599 Freiberg, Germany.
Abstract:
In this work, the extraction of vanadium (V) ions from an alkaline solution using a commercial quaternary ammonium salt and the production of metal vanadates through precipitation stripping were carried out. The crystallization of copper vanadates from the extracts was performed using a solution containing a copper(II) source in concentrated chloride media as a stripping agent. In an attempt to control growth, a stabilizing polymer (polyvinylpyrrolidone, PVP) was added to the stripping solution. The structural characteristics of the crystallized products, mainly copper pyrovanadate (volborthite, Cu3V2O7(OH)2·(H2O)2) nanoflakes and nanoflowers and the experimental parameter influencing the efficiency of the stripping process were studied. From the results, the synthesis of nanostructured vanadates is a simple and versatile method for the fabrication of valuable three-dimensional structures providing abundant active zones for energy and catalytic applications.
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