Structural characterization of ammonium molybdophosphate with different amount of cesium adsorption

Powdered crystal AMP was synthesized by precipitation method and different Cs-loading AMP samples were prepared in this work. They were studied by modern methods of X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) to gain a better understanding of the ion exchange mechanism of ammonium molybdophosphate (AMP). The XRD patterns combined with the FT-IR analysis indicate that the Keggin structure is retained after Cs adsorption, while the changes of certain characteristic diffraction peaks show crystal lattice distortion caused by the mismatching sizes of Cs+ and [NH4]+. The TGA showed that the weight percent of H2O and [NH4]+ decreases as the amount of Cs adsorbed onto AMP increases, which corresponds with the theory of isomorphous exchange. (author)