The facile chemical precipitation method and subsequent thermal treatment were shown to be suitable for preparation of crystalline ThO2 nanoparticles(NPs) in a wide range of particle sizes (from 2.5 to 34.3 nm). The obtained NPs were investigated with X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray absorption techniques to find out the possible size effects associated with nanocrystalline thoria.
@article{arxiv.2010.02796,
title = {Size Effects in Nanocrystalline Thoria},
author = {Tatiana V. Plakhova and Anna Yu. Romanchuk and Daria V. Likhosherstova and Alexander E. Baranchikov and Pavel V. Dorovatovskii and Roman D. Svetogorov and Tatiana B. Shatalova and Tolganay B. Egorova and Alexander L. Trigub and Kristina O. Kvashnina and Vladimir K. Ivanov and Stepan N. Kalmykov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02796},
year = {2020}
}