Synthesis of Zirconia Colloids from Aqueous Salt Solutions.pdfVIP

Journal J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 82 [2] 338–42 (1999) Synthesis of Zirconia Colloids from Aqueous Salt Solutions †,¶ † ‡ †,§ Kangtaek Lee , Arun Sathyagal , Peter W. Carr , and Alon V. McCormick Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 We monitor the synthesis of ZrO2 colloids from dissolved Because dialysis is time-consuming and evaporation requires ZrOCl 8H O using quasi-elastic light scattering and cryo- some care to avoid flocculation, it would be advantageous to 2 2 transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). We investi- produce more concentrated sols with the hydrothermal salt gate the effects of both precursor salt concentration and method, while maintaining both monodispersity and average pH on the final size distribution. We find that the initial size of ∼ 100 nm. A potential difficulty lies in the finding of pH plays the most important role in the final particle Matsui et al.7—highly concentrated solutions can behave much size and yield. These trends and cryo-TEM observations differently from dilute solutions. help elucidate the roles of nucleation,