EffectofHydrolysisConditionsontheDirectFormationof：水解条件对直接形成的影响.pdfVIP

Journal of Nanoparticle Research 5: 147–156, 2003. © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Effect of hydrolysis conditions on the direct formation of nanoparticles of ceria–zirconia solid solutions from acidic aqueous solutions Masanori Hirano and Kaname Hirai Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Aichi Institute of Technology, Yachigusa, Yakusa, Toyota, 470-0392 Japan (Tel.: +81-565-48-8121; Fax: +81-565-48-0076; E-mail: hirano@ac.aitech.ac.jp) Received 26 September 2002; accepted in revised form 3 January 2003 Key words: hydrolysis, hydrothermal treatment, cerium oxide, zirconium oxide, solid solution, thermal stability Abstract The effect of the cation concentration, hydrolysis temperature, and composition in the CeO2–ZrO2 system on the direct precipitation of ceria–zirconia solid solutions and the structure of the precipitates from acidic aqueous solu- tions of (NH ) Ce(NO )6 and ZrOCl2 by hydrolysis under hydrothermal conditions were investigated. Nanometer- 4 2 3 sized (8–10 nm) ceria–zirconia solid solution particles in a composition range of 0 to 60 mol% ZrO2 were directly precipitated from the solutions with total metal cation concentration less than 0.2 mol/dm3 by simultaneous thermal hydrolysis at 150–240◦C. The crystalline phase of the precipitates gradually changed from cubic and/or tetragonal to monoclinic with increasing the cation concentration of the solution from 0.2 to 0.8 mol/dm3 at the starting com- position of 50 mol% ZrO ◦ 2 under hydrolysis condition of 150 C for 48 h, which was attributed to decrease in the supply of hydrolyzed Ce component caused by decrease in the hydrolysis ratio of (NH ) Ce(NO ) . Ceria–zirconia