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Iron-molybdenum silica mesoporous materials were obtained by the application of direct hydrothermal method. The influence of high temperature samples reduction in the H2 flow on their structural and magnetic properties was studied. Four samples with different metal contents relative to silica were investigated. The study was carried out by means of X-ray diffraction, 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy and the temperature programmed reduction method. With an increasing metals content, primary pores of MCM-41 transformed into the bottle-like pores, and then into the slit-like ones. Reduction and heat treatment caused the α-Fe, Fe2Mo, and Fe-Mo alloy formation. Iron and molybdenum atoms after being released into the silica matrix, where they were embedded, create clusters or crystallites. It was observed that the high temperature reduction caused partial transformation of highly dispersed Fe-Mo oxides species initially embedded in silica walls into crystallites big enough to give magnetic sextet component in the Mössbauer spectra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Iron-molybdenum modified MCM-41 mesoporous materials were obtained by the application of direct hydrothermal method. An incorporation of iron and molybdenum ions in the synthesis stage led to structural changes of the MCM-41 support. With an increasing metals content, cylindrical pores of silica are destroyed. X-ray diffraction investigations indicated that both iron and molybdenum ions were first embedded in the silica walls and then formed highly dispersed species in the pores. The porous structure of the studied samples was examined by means of N2 adsorption/desorption and PALS methods. The longest-lived o-Ps lifetime component remains constant but its intensity monotonically decreases, except for the sample with the highest metals content. These results indicate that an effect of o-Ps formation inhibition occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]