Zirconia nanostructures, doped

Related systems It should be noted that specific properties for applications could be enhanced by using solid solutions, doped materials, and composites, instead of pure ceria. For example, ceria-zirconia solid solution is a well known ceria based material for enhanced OSC and high ionic conductivity for solid state fuel cell components. It is also used in the three way catalysts for automobile waste gas cleaning, because of the improved thermal stability, surface area, and reducibility. The synthesis, structure, and properties of ceria-zirconia have been actively studied for a long time. Di Monte and Kaspar et al. presented feature articles on the nanostructured ceria—zirconia-mixed oxides. The studies on phase, structures, as well as the microstructures are discussed and reviewed (Di Monte et al., 2004). 

Doped materials, where a structural component of the material becomes partially substituted by a dopant species or when external species ingress in the original material as an interstitial ion. The term doping is thus applied to, for instance, yttria-doped zirconias used for potentiometric determination of O2 but also to describe the incorporation of Li in polymers and nanostructured carbons. 

Qian, Z. and Shi, ).L (1998) Characterization of pure and doped zirconia nanoparticles with iitffared transmission spectroscopy. Nanostructured Materials, 10, 235-44. 

The present work was focused on the synthesis of nanocrystalline components for electrochemical cells via the cellulose-precursor technique. This method was used to prepare nanostructured intermediate-temperature (IT) SOFC anodes made of a series of cermets comprising gadolinia-doped ceria (CGO), yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), Gdi.86Cao.i4Ti207.5 (GCTO) pyrochlore, metallic nickel and copper. Perovskite-type SrFcojAlo.sOs.s (SFA) powder, also obtained via the cellulose precursor, was applied onto membranes of the same composition to enhance specific surface area and electrocatalytic activity in the reactors for methane conversion [3]. 

Morita et al. [97] have studied the photoluminescence of CdS Mn and Eu nanoparticles dispersed in zirconia sol-gel films. Luminescence properties of doped semiconductors are characterized by the presence of multi-centers, surface effects, and fast nonradiative decay processes in nanostructured sol-gel ceramic matrix. 

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