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Gadolinium Oxide Properties and Applications

Gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3) compound is the oxide form of one of the rare earth metal gadolinium. Gadolinium oxide is also known as gadolinium sesquioxide, gadolinium trioxide and Gadolinia. The color of the gadolinium oxide is white. Gadolinium oxide is odorless, not soluble in water, but soluble in acids. Gadolinium oxide could be appeared in three different structures: cubic (c-Gd2O3), monoclinic (m-Gd2O3) and hexagonal (h-Gd2O3). The cubic gadolinium oxide changes to monoclinic structure at 1200oC. While the hexagonal gadolinium oxide phase exists above melting point which is at temperature of 2420oC. Gadolinium oxide is the most available form of the pure gadolinium. Gadolinium oxide has physiochemical properties like the crystallographic stability up 2325oC, high mechanical strength, excellent thermal conductivity, and a wide band optical band. The gadolinium oxides has a variety of applications.
Gadolinium oxide is used in magnetic resonance and fluorescence imaging
Gadolinium oxide is used as enhancer of the scan clarity in MRI
Gadolinium oxide is used as contrast agent for MRI
Gadolinium oxide is used in fabrication of the base for Judd-Ofelt high-efficiency luminescent devices
Gadolinium oxide is used in doping-modification of thermally treated nanocomposites
Gadolinium oxide is used in semi-commercial manufacturing of magneto caloric materials
Gadolinium oxide is used for making optical glasses
Gadolinium oxide is used as burnable poison, in other words, gadolinium oxide is used as part of the fresh fuel in compact reactors to control the neutron flux and the power 

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