Synthesis and Characterization of Yttrium Doped Nano-zirconia by a Cationic Surfactant-assisted Route

摘要

Recently, more and more interest has been focused on zirconia for its unique characteristics. In this paper, via the preceding preparation technique, yttrium can be successfully incorporated into nano-zirconia by a cationic surfactant-assisted route. The methods of XRD, TEM, EDS, Uv-vis and N_2 adsorption-desorption are adopted to characterize the synthesized samples. The results show that the yttrium has been successfully incorporated into the zirconia lattice, and the thermal stability of yttrium doped zirconia has been enhanced remarkably.