zno and zro2 photo catalysts were synthesized by sol-gel auto combustion method. the products were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem). structural and morphological properties of nano particles were investigated and the average crystalline size of zno and zro2 was obtained 44 and 51 nm, respectively. also, photo catalytic degradation of nitro phenol f...

Sintered samples of monoclinic zirconia (α-ZrO2) have been irradiated at room temperature with 6.0-GeV Pb ions in the electronic slowing down regime. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and micro-Raman spectroscopy measurements showed unambiguously that a transition to the ‘metastable’ tetragonal phase (β-ZrO2) occurred at a fluence of 6.5x10 cm for a large electronic stopping power value (≈ 32.5 MeV μm). ...

The vapour phase selective conversion of glycerol to acetol at normal atmospheric pressure in a fixed-bed micro reactor was investigated over SO4 2 and WOx promoted ZrO2 and M-ZrO2 (M = Al2O3 or TiO2) solid acid catalysts. The investigated sulfate and tungstate ion promoted zirconia-based catalysts were prepared by both coprecipitation and impregnation methods and calcined at 923 K. The synthes...

Zirconia ZrO2 and hafnia HfO2 are leading candidates for replacing SiO2 as the gate insulator in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology. Amorphous versions of these materials a-ZrO2 and a-HfO2 can be grown as metastable phases on top of a silicon buffer; while they tend to recrystallize during subsequent annealing steps, they would otherwise be of considerable interest because of th...

A hybrid nanolaminates consisting of Al2O3/ZrO2/alucone (aluminum alkoxides with carbon-containing backbones) grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) were reported for an encapsulation of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The electrical Ca test in this study was designed to measure the water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) of nanolaminates. We found that moisture barrier performance was impr...

Some issues such as tunneling, leakage current and light atom penetration through the film are threatening the ultra thin SiO2 be as a good dielectric for future industrial and electronic devices. Moreover, ultra fine and pure ZrO2/CrO2 are also so important in ceramic technologies. We have demonstrated a series of experiments to synthesis ZrO2 as well as CrO2 at low temperature with using sol-...

A single atomic layer of ZrO2 exhibits ferroelectric switching behavior when grown with an atomically abrupt interface on silicon. Hysteresis in capacitance-voltage measurements of a ZrO2 gate stack demonstrate that a reversible polarization of the ZrO2 interface structure couples to the carriers in the silicon. First-principles computations confirm the existence of multiple stable polarization...

Objective: Today, special attention is paid to the use of zirconium dioxide nanoparticle (nano-ZrO2), a neutral bioceramic metal, particularly for drug and gene delivery in medicine. However, there are some reports implying that use of nano-ZrO2 is associated with cytotoxic effects like inhibiting the cell proliferation, DNA damage and apoptosis. In the present study, we examined whether nano-Z...

Citation: Charisiou ND, Siakavelas G, Papageridis KN, Baklavaridis A, Tzounis L, Goula G, Yentekakis IV, Polychronopoulou K and Goula MA (2017) The Effect of WO3 Modification of ZrO2 Support on the Ni-Catalyzed Dry Reforming of Biogas Reaction for Syngas Production. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:66. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00066 The Effect of WO3 Modification of ZrO2 Support on the Ni-Catalyzed Dry Re...

The atomic-scale structure of nanocrystalline ZrO2 obtained by ball milling has been studied using highenergy x-ray diffraction and the atomic pair distribution function technique. The studies show that, upon relatively short milling times, the parent crystalline material, monoclinic ZrO2, evolves into a nanocrystalline phase that is locally similar to monoclinic zirconia but shows a cubic-type...