文摘
Nanocrystalline MgO has been sol-gel manufactured to give arange of crystallite sizesfrom 1.8 to 35 nm as determined by powder X-ray diffraction. Amultinuclear magneticresonance approach using 13C, 17O, and25Mg provides information on the atomicscalestructure. It is found that despite extensive hydrolysis that-CH3 fragments persist untilextensive calcination has been performed. In 17O magicangle spinning NMR spectra threesignals are detected that are assigned to MgO-like, a surface species,and a unit also likeMgO but with carbon as the third nearest neighbor, demonstrating thehigh sensitivity ofthe 17O chemical shift to local structure and its abilityto detect medium-range order.