Nanometer aluminum nitride powder with purity higher than 98wt% and diameter in the range of 5-80nm has been obtained by microwave heating using α-Al2O3、Al(OH)3、 colloidal Al(OH)3 as the source for aluminum, and phenolformaldehyde resin, char, nanometer carbon black powder as the source for carbon, respectively. The effect of the type of starting materials and synthesis conditions on the purity and the size of the nanometer AlN powder has been analyzed in this paper.
SiC nanometer whisker, whose diameter was about 50nm and purity was 98.54%, was synthesized by microwave heating in an atmosphere of argon. Char pyrolyzed phenolformaldehyde resin and SiO2 nanometer powder were used as starting materials. The properties of the whisker were determined by XRD and TEM. The mechanism for synthesizing SiC nanometer whisker was discussed.
