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Dispersion and agglomeration behaviors of submicron ceria particles in concentrated slurries

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Dispersion behaviors of ceria (CeO2) particles in polishing slurries have direct influence on surface quality, especially for ultra-smooth optics, but their actual states have not been characterized and understood well due to much low concentration limit of traditional analysis technologies. In this work, we study dispersion and agglomeration behaviors of submicron ceria particles in concentrated slurries with ultrasonic attenuation technology and electroacoustic technology, where particle size distribution (PSD) models and their base transformation are analyzed at beginning. It is found that obtained volume-based PSDs are much wide lognormal ones, and they should be transformed to number-based ones and corrected. The number-based upper size, d99, is in the range from 0.1 to 0.8 μm mainly. And zeta potential of the ceria particles in these slurries could be obtained by the advanced electroacoustic theories in direct measurement, with values between 0 and − 60 mV. The ceria particles have different dispersion behaviors and zeta potential values in these slurries, and higher zeta potential values could promote particle dispersion in the slurry with de-ionized water, which can be explained well by the extended Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek theory. These results would provide useful guideline to characterize, understand, and optimize dispersion behaviors of engineered particles in concentrated slurries.

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The volume-based d99 and zeta potential of the ceria particles in 20 wt% slurries with different carrier liquids.

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The study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 51905506), and Institute of Machinery Manufacturing Technology, China Academy of Engineering Physics.

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    Qilong Wei, Zixin Luo, Qiang Yang & Wei Gao

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Wei, Q., Luo, Z., Yang, Q. et al. Dispersion and agglomeration behaviors of submicron ceria particles in concentrated slurries. Colloid Polym Sci 299, 1683–1694 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-021-04894-7

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