XPS Study on Calcining Mixtures of Brucite with Titania.

In this work, we studied the phases in a Mg-Ti-O system using a 1:1 formulation of MgO:TiO, mixing synthetic brucite of Mexican origin with TiO microparticles of high purity, with a heat treatment at 1100 °C for 1 h. Due to its valence electrons, TiO can contribute to the sintering process to improve density in MgO products. The raw materials and formulation by XPS and X-RD techniques were characterized.