Cerium citrate is an important cerium salt, which has potential application value in materials, medicine, environmental protection and other fields due to its unique chemical properties.
Chemical properties
- Solubility: soluble in water, can be gradually hydrolyzed in water
- Acidity and alkalinity: Weakly acidic because of the presence of citrate ions
Stability: Relatively stable in dry air, but may absorb water in a humid environment and change the crystal water content
Complexability: It has the ability to complex and can form complexes with some metal ions
Fields of application
materials science
- Ceramic materials: can be used as additives to prepare ceramic materials and improve the properties of ceramics, such as improving their hardness and toughness
- Optical materials: It may be used as a doping agent in the preparation of optical materials, which will have a certain impact on optical properties, such as improving optical uniformity
Pharmaceutical field
- Drug carrier: It can be used to prepare drug carriers, use their complexing ability to wrap drugs, and improve the stability and bioavailability of drugs
- Therapeutics: may be used as adjuvant therapeutic agents in the treatment of certain diseases, such as in some studies of cerium-related metabolic diseases
Environmental protection field
- Wastewater treatment: It can be used to remove certain heavy metal ions in wastewater and precipitate them through complexation, so as to achieve the purpose of purifying wastewater
