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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1994
Stanley A Lawton, St. Louis, MO (US);
Edward A Theby, St. Charles, MO (US);
McDonnel Douglas Corp., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A method for making vanadium dioxide (V.sub.2 or V.sub.2 O.sub.4) powders from vanadyl sulfate without using SO.sub.2 gas, comprises evaporative decomposition of a vanadyl sulfate hydrate spray, entrained in a nitrogen atmosphere at O.sub.2 partial pressures that would normally predict V.sub.2 O.sub.5 V.sub.2 O.sub.3. The yield of VO.sub.2 (also identified as V.sub.2 O.sub.4) is substantially improved, and occurs at lower temperatures, by the addition of hydrogen gas into the atmosphere. Surprisingly, there is no production of V.sub.2 O.sub.3. Minor amounts of a suitable dopant salt dissolved in the spray provide improved low transition temperature powders.