TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ran, Ke
AU  - Deibert, Wendelin
AU  - Ivanova, Mariya E.
AU  - Meulenberg, Wilhelm A.
AU  - Mayer, Joachim
TI  - Direction observation of the grain boundary segregation in molybdenum substituted lanthanum tungstate membranes
JO  - Nanoscale
VL  - 12
IS  - 34
SN  - 2040-3372
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - RSC Publ.
M1  - FZJ-2020-02929
SP  - 17841-17848
PY  - 2020
AB  - Molybdenum substituted lanthanum tungstate membranes (LWO-Mo) offer a good alternative for the separation of hydrogen from gas mixtures. During several essential steps of the membrane processing, an intensive employment of ZrO2 milling balls is usually inevitable. However, how these milling balls affect the final LWO-Mo membranes, is still largely unknown. Employing comprehensive transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques, the residual Zr was found to segregate to the grain boundaries (GBs) of the LWO-Mo, either as thin layers or as individual nanograins. At atomic scale, structural and chemical analyses on these GB features were carried out quantitatively. The segregated Zr took more than half of the W sites of the LWO-Mo, resulting in a strained LWO structure and locally concentrated oxygen vacancies. To minimize any Zr contamination, either a competent alternative for ZrO2 or a careful introduction of certain secondary phases (SPs) was proposed. Our results unravel the processing-induced GB behaviors in LWO-Mo, which pave the way towards further optimized processing for various types of functional membranes.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:32839795
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000566813600017
DO  - DOI:10.1039/D0NR04396F
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/878586
ER  -