A Simple Alcohothermal Synthetic Route to High Surface Area Zirconia Aerogel

摘要

A novel alcohothermal process has been successfully developed to prepare the thermally stable tetragonal zirconia aerogel using a cheap inorganic salt as the starting material.The results showed that the as-prepared zirconia aerogel has a high surface area and a well-developed textural mesoporosity,which is highly attractive for potential applications in heterogeneous catalysis.