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EFFECT OF GEL PARAMETERS ON THE GROWTH AND NUCLEATION OF LEAD IODATE CRYSTALS
1. International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics ( IJCI) Vol.2, No.4, August 2013
DOI: 10.5121/ijci.2013.2406 57
EFFECT OF GEL PARAMETERS ON THE GROWTH
AND NUCLEATION OF LEAD IODATE CRYSTALS
K. D. Girase
S.V.S.’s Dadasaheb Rawal College, Dondaicha, 425408, India.
kdgirase_1964@rediffmail.com
ABSTRACT
In the present investigation, lead iodate crystals were grown in silica gel at ambient temperature. The effect
of various parameters like gel concentration, pH of gel, gel ageing, concentration of the reactants on the
growth of these crystals were studied. Good quality crystals having different morphologies and habits were
obtained. Some of These crystals were opaque and some were translucent.
KEYWORDS
Gel pH, gel density, ageing, concentration of reactants
1. INTRODUCTION
The subject of crystal growth has held a high level of interest, both scientifically and
technologically, for a very long period. Nearly all basic solid materials of modern technology are
made up of crystals. Hence an understanding of how crystals are grown is an important aspect of
the science of materials. The need of better quality crystals in industries and technology cannot be
met with from the diminishing natural sources.
In recent years, very few attempts have been made to study growth and characterization of iodate
crystals in general. In the literature, there are no reports on the growth and characterization of
lead iodate crystals. Most of the iodates exhibit prominent non-linear optics (NLO) behavior.
NLO materials exhibiting second harmonic generation and find wide range of applications in the
field of telecommunication for efficient signal processing and optical information storage devices.
The search for new materials with high optical nonlinearities is an important task. Hence,
considering these aspects, growth of lead iodate crystal is very interesting in view of
crystallographic and optical properties.
We report here the several aspects regarding the growth procedure of lead iodate; optimum
growth conditions and the growth kinetics i.e. influence of different growth parameters to obtain
optimization conditions for the growth of these crystals.
2. EXPERIMENTAL
In the present work, single diffusion method was used [1-10]. In actual procedure, 7 cc, 1N acetic
acid was taken in a small beaker, to which SMS solution of density 1.04 gm/cc was added drop
by drop with constant stirring by using magnetic stirrer, till the pH value 4.2 was set for the
mixture. A digital pocket sized pH meter of HANNA instruments was used for this purpose.
Continuous stirring process avoids excessive local ion concentration which otherwise causes
premature local gelling and makes the final solution inhomogeneous and turbid. To this mixture,
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5 cc aqueous solution of 0.1 M Pb(NO3)2 (as inner reagents) was added with constant stirring. The
pH of the mixture was maintained at 4.2. Number of experiments were carried out in order to
secure appropriate range of pH values which in turn gives a good gel allowing growing a good
quality crystals. It was observed that, for the mixture having pH value less than 4.2, gelation takes
quite large time of the order of several days. However, in the pH range 4.0 - 4.5, there was
appropriate waiting in gellation time. The gel setting time required for the gel solutions having
pH value greater than 4.5 was short.
Borosil glass test tubes of diameter 2.5 cm and height 15 cm were used as crystallizing vessels.
Above mixture was then transferred to the clean test tube and kept undisturbed for gellation. The
mouth of test tube was covered by cotton plug to avoid contamination of the exposed surface with
atmospheric impurities and to keep the gel at atmospheric conditions. Initially the mixture
appeared to be quite translucent. However, with the lapse of time, its color changed and became
milky white when the gel was completely set. The setting time of gel was about 5 days. The set
gel was left for 2 more days for ageing. The ageing of the gel reduces the diameter of the
capillaries in gel so that the speed of the reaction is automatically controlled. The outer reagent
(supernatant), an aqueous solution of 0.1 M KIO3 was carefully poured along the walls of the test
tube with the help of pipette over the set gel in order to avoid breaking of gel surface and internal
structure. The nucleation starts as the anions of potassium iodate slowly diffused into the gel
column containing lead nitrate and react together to form the expected crystals. The fully grown
crystals are shown in Figure 1 Then these crystals were removed from the crystallizing tube and
washed in distilled water.
Figure 1 Growth of lead iodate crystals inside the test tubes
(a) (b)
Figure 2 Lead iodate crystals outside the test tubes (a) fractal dendrite aggregate crystals and (b) spiky
sperulitic and platelets crystals
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Figure 2a shows few colorless fractal dendrite aggregate crystals of lead iodate of size 6 x 6 mm
on a graph paper with their scaling. Small spiky sperulitic and platelets crystals as shown in
Figure 2b were observed for higher concentration of reactants. Experiments were also carried out
by interchanging positions of the reactants. All experiments leading to the growth of crystals were
carried out at room temperature. In the present investigation, the growth of lead iodate occurs in
four different forms viz. spiky spherulites, dendrite (fractal with center), crystal aggregates and
platelets. A white precipitate layer of thickness about 0.5 to 1.0 cm was formed at the gel solution
interface at the instant of pouring the upper reactant. It may be due to the concentration gradient
is very high just below the gel interface and hence the growth rate is very high. Thickness of the
precipitation increases with the concentration of upper reactant. The precipitation formed was
actually spurious nucleation. Just below the white precipitate there are large number of small
sized spiky spherulitic crystals were grown as shown in Figure 3.
As we go below away from the gel interface, the concentration gradient goes on decreasing and
hence the growth rate is also goes on decreasing. So at the middle of the test tube multi-
branched tree-like (fractal with center) dendrite aggregate crystals were obtained. Figure 4 shows
magnified view of multi-branched tree-like (fractal with center) dendrite aggregates crystals.
Figure 3 Magnified view of spiky spherulites crystals of lead iodate
Figure 4 Magnified view of multi-branching tree-like form (fractal with center) dendrite crystals of lead
iodate
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3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3.1 Optimum condition
Optimum growth conditions for good quality, size and nucleation control of lead iodate crystals is
achieved by changing a variety of gel parameters viz. concentration of supernatant (feed
solution), gel density, pH of the gel, gel ageing and concentration programming etc. The effect of
different gel parameters is discussed in the following sections with respect to the results obtained.
3.2.1 Effect of gel density
The gels of different densities were obtained by mixing sodium metasilicate solutions of specific
gravity 1.02 to 1.06 gm/cc with 1N acetic acid, keeping pH value constant.
Figure 5 Growth of crystals for different gel densities
Figure 6 Plate-like crystal habit
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It was observed that transparency of the gel decreased with increase of gel density. Gels with
higher densities required less gel setting time compared to the gels with lower densities. It may be
noted that good size, well defined crystals were obtained with sodium meta silicate with density
1.04 gm/cc. Growth of crystals for different gel densities is shown in Figure 5. A greater gel
density implies smaller pores size and poor communication among the pores and thus decreasing
the nucleation density. Contradictory to this low nucleation were found in low density gel as
shown in Figure 5 It may be due to the fact that at low densities, initially nucleation density is
very high hence miniature nuclei are very close each other and adsorption phenomena come into
play. Due to this small nuclei get adsorbed to relatively large nuclei. Thus small nuclei are
depleted from the nearby region. This results in the formation of crystal aggregates. In present
work, Fractal dendrite habit, crystal aggregates were obtained at low gel density 1.03 gm/cc and
1.04 gm/cc while plate-like habit crystals were obtained at high gel density 1.05 gm/cc and 1.06
gm/cc as shown in Figure 6.
In the present work, gel density of the value 1.04 gm/cc is the optimum condition for the growth
of good quality crystals.
3.2.2 Effect of pH of gel
By changing the pH of gel with keeping gel composition and concentration of reactants constant,
the effect of pH on growth rate was studied. The pH value of gel was varied from 3.5 to 6. It was
observed that as pH increased, transparency of the gel decreased. Crystals growing at higher
values were not translucent and well defined. This may be due to contamination of the crystals
with silica gel. This is because as pH increases, the gel structure changes from distinctly boxlike
network to a structure of loosely bound platelets, which appears to lack cross-linkages and the
cellular nature becomes less distinct. Number of nuclei also decreases and the crystals are not
well defined, due to improper formation of cells at high pH values.
Gel takes longer time to set with smaller pH values. Such gel can be easily fractured at the time of
addition of supernatant.
3.2.3 Effect of gel ageing
Gel ageing plays an effective role on the growth of crystals. To investigate the effect of ageing of
gels, gels of same pH and density were allowed to age for various periods before adding the feed
solution. It was found that the nucleation density decreases as the ageing increases. Ageing of gel
reduces number of nucleation centers and growth rate. The reason may be the formation
additional cross-linkages between siloxane chains with increasing gel age, resulting in a gradually
diminishing cell size. This in turn reduces nucleation centers, since many nuclei find themselves
in cells of very small size, where further growth is not possible. Insufficient gel ageing leads to
the formation of fragile gel and it often breaks at the time of addition of supernatant. In the
present work, it was found that ageing of 48 hours is suitable because it makes the gel neither dry
or brittle nor fragile.
3.2.4 Effect of concentration of reactants
The effects of different concentrations of feed solutions can be investigated by preparing the gel
of the same pH (4.2) and density (1.04 gm/cc). Feed solutions of either KIO3 or Pb(NO3)2 were
tried. Initially KIO3 solution of 0.1 M to 0.4M molarities were used as feed solution and keeping
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the molarity of the Pb(NO3)2 constant. Then Pb(NO3)2 solution of 0.1 M to 0.5 M molarities were
used as feed solution and keeping the molarity of the KIO3 constant.
It was observed that as the concentration of the reactant in the gel increases, the nucleation
density also increases. This may be due to the enhanced availability of Pb+
ions in the gel. For the
growth of good quality crystals, suitable concentrations of reactant (Pb(NO3)2) incorporated in the
gel was found to be 0.1M and for the feed solution (KIO3) over the set gel, it was found to be
0.1M.
It has been observed that change in the position of reactants does not affect either the quality of
the crystal or the number of nucleation centers. Therefore, after getting the optimized conditions,
all experiments were carried out by incorporating 5cc, 0.1 M Pb(NO3)2 solution in gel and 0.1 M
KIO3 feed solution (Supernatant) was put over the set gel. The growth of lead iodate crystals for
different concentrations of reactant is shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7 Growth of lead iodate crystals for different concentrations of reactants
Table 1 Optimum conditions for growth of Pb(IO3)2 crystals
Parameters Optimum Condition
Density of sodium meta silicate solution 1.04 gm/cc
Volume of sodium meta silicate solution 17.5 cc
Volume of 1N acetic acid 7 cc
pH of the gel 4.2
Concentration of KIO3 0.1 M
Volume of KIO3 10 cc
Concentration of Pb(NO3)2 0.1 M
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Volume of Pb(NO3)2 5 cc
Gel setting time 5 days
Gel ageing time 2 days
Period of growth 3 weeks
Temperature Room Temp.
4. CONCLUSIONS
In view of the above observations, we may conclude the following;
The gel growth system can be successfully used for the growth of lead iodate crystals. Nucleation
control can be achieved by changing a variety of gel parameters such as pH of gel, density of gel,
ageing of gel and concentration of feed solutions. It was found that crystals having a range of
morphologies and habits i.e. translucent, prismatic, shinning, aggregates, spiky sperulitic and
multi arm dendrite good quality colorless crystals were obtained.
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the expertise and help provided by Dr. L. A. Patil, Head, Department of
Physics, Pratap College, Amalner for laboratory facilities. One of the authors (KDG) thankful to
University Grant Commission (Pune) for financial assistance and Dr. N.O. Girase, Principal,
S.V.S’s Dadasaheb Rawal College, Dondaicha for his competent moral support.
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Dr. K. D. Girase
Associate Professor
Vice Principal, Dadasaheb Rawal college, Dondaicha,
Working on crystal growth and material science
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