Mesoporous Magnesium Mixed-Oxide Material
Official patent title
MIXED METAL OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITE AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE NANOCOMPOSITE
Arabic title: مركب نانوي من أكاسيد فلزية مختلطة وعملية تصنيعه
Invention
Invention
Problem
Porous mixed-oxide materials require controlled phase composition and pore structure so that their surface and transport properties can be reproduced across synthesis batches.
Why it matters
A reproducible mesoporous oxide platform could support later catalyst, adsorbent, ceramic, or electrochemical screening, provided that performance is established for a defined application.
Approach
The material forms a homogeneous orthorhombic mixture of MgTi2O5 and Mg3B2O6 phases through solution mixing, ethylene-glycol treatment, powder formation, and calcination.
Who may benefit
Potential beneficiaries include ceramic-material researchers, catalyst and adsorbent developers, nanomaterial producers, electrochemical laboratories, and specialty-oxide suppliers.
Potential value
The disclosure defines a two-phase magnesium titanate/magnesium borate material with homogeneous phase mixing, mesoporosity, crystallite-size limits, and a specified thermal synthesis sequence.
Background
Background
Mixed metal oxides can combine thermal stability, surface chemistry, dielectric behavior, and ion-transport characteristics that differ from either phase alone. Their usefulness depends on phase purity, interfacial distribution, porosity, crystallite size, and reproducibility after heating. Solution routes can improve precursor mixing, while calcination develops the final crystalline phases. However, high-temperature processing affects energy cost and particle sintering. Without a defined use test, material characterization alone cannot establish adsorption, catalytic, electrochemical, mechanical, or other application performance.
Technology overview
Technology overview
The nanocomposite contains orthorhombic MgTi2O5 and Mg3B2O6 as a homogeneous phase mixture. Claims specify 5–10 nm mean pore diameter, 0.2–0.3 cm³/g total pore volume, 70–80 m²/g BET area, and 60–70 nm average crystallite size. The process dissolves magnesium salt and boric acid separately, combines them with an acidified titanium-alkoxide alcohol solution, adds another acid-water mixture and ethylene glycol, heats at 110–130 °C to form powder, and calcines at 600–700 °C for 1–3 hours.
Potential applications
Potential applications
- Mesoporous catalyst-support screening.
- Adsorbent-material research.
- Mixed-oxide ceramic development.
- Electrochemical-material evaluation.
Evidence-supported advantages
Evidence-supported advantages
- Combines two defined orthorhombic phases.
- Provides a homogeneous mixed-phase structure.
- Defines mesopore and surface-area ranges.
- Specifies crystallite-size limits.
- Uses a documented solution-and-calcination sequence.
Development stage
Development stage
The publication describes a synthesis sequence and claimed structural characterization; application-specific performance and commercialization were not established. The development stage was not independently verified.
Commercial opportunity
Commercial opportunity
The material could be positioned as a specialty mixed-oxide platform after an end use is selected. Commercial work requires application benchmarks, phase and pore reproducibility across scale, precursor and acid handling, calcination energy analysis, powder safety, shaping or coating methods, stability and reuse, supply-chain costing, and comparison with simpler magnesium titanate or borate materials.
Patent classifications
Patent classifications
WIPO IPC
- C04B35/465Lime; magnesia; slag; cements and their compositions; artificial stone; ceramics; refractories; treatment of natural stone
- C04B35/626Lime; magnesia; slag; cements and their compositions; artificial stone; ceramics; refractories; treatment of natural stone
CPC
- C04B35/465Lime; magnesia; slag; cements and their compositions; artificial stone; ceramics; refractories; treatment of natural stone
- C01G23/00Compounds containing metals not covered by subclasses C01D or C01F
- C04B35/62655Lime; magnesia; slag; cements and their compositions; artificial stone; ceramics; refractories; treatment of natural stone
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Inventors
Inventors
- First inventorEhab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed
Keywords
Keywords
- mixed metal oxide
- magnesium titanate
- magnesium borate
- mesoporous
- orthorhombic phase
- BET surface area
- calcination
- crystallite size
Patent document and drawings
Patent document and drawings
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