An investigation has been made on the local structure and the gel to crystalline conversion mechanism in BaTiO
3 monolithic gels derived from hydrolysis of concentrated Ba, Ti alkoxide precursor solutions with a Ba/Ti molar ratio of 1.00 during aging at 30°C by means of XRD, Ba L
III-edge EXAFS, Ti K-edge XANES, and ICP. The results indicate that local structures of amorphous monolithic gels obtained immediately after gelation consisted of Ba-TiO
6 clusters coordinated with alkoxyl or hydroxyl ligands as a structural unit, which underwent condensation polymerization by corner-sharing of TiO
6 octahedra to form a three-dimensional gel-network. The conversion of gel to crystalline barium titanate nano-particles during aging at 30°C can be explained by a model that the crystalline phase directly forms from the amorphous phase without dissolution, deposition and diffusion of the reactant species nor generation of intermediate phases.
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