Acrylic (polymethylmethacrylate or PMMA) bone cement was modified by the addition of high-strength zirconia fibers with average lengths of 200 microm and diameters of 15 microm or 30 microm. A novel emulsion polymerization process was developed to encapsulate individual fibers in PMMA. Improvements in tensile and compressive properties as well as in fracture toughness were investigated upon inc...

The aim of this study was to assess whether surface treatment improves zirconia-porcelain adhesion. The 3Y-TZP blocks were cut into squares, then polished and sintered. The zirconia surface treatments were performed as follows: no treatment (C); tribochemical silica coating (TBS); glaze application + hydrofluoric acid etching (GA); glaze application + hydrofluoric acid etching + silanization (G...

Abstract Measuring the temperature below surface of a thermal barrier coating (TBC) using thin phosphor layer is challenging primarily due to absorption and scattering laser excitation light luminescence as they propagate through coating. One way increase could be use upconversion thermometry, which investigated in current study. It attractive because longer wavelengths reduces TBCs 8 % wt. Ytt...

Zirconia ultrafiltration membranes are widely developed and used for past several years. But the conventional sol-gel methods of zirconia membrane preparation involve many steps. In the present study an attempt was made to develop defect free zirconia ultrafiltration (UF) membrane in single step coating of zirconia nanopowder suspension by slip casting method over multichannel ceramic support. ...

Here, we successfully developed the undoped, Ni2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ doped Zirconia nanoparticles (ZrO2 NPs) by a simple co-precipitation method at room temperature and characterized by various physicochemical measurement techniques to investigate their structure, morphology, and sizes of the particles. The bandgap energy values of doped and undoped ZrO2 NPs were estimated using optical absorption...

A Ti-rich oxide, (Ti0.50Zr0.26Mg0.14Cr0.10) 1⁄4 1.0O1.81, was synthesized at 8.8GPa and 1600 1C using a multi-anvil apparatus. Its crystal structure at ambient conditions and compressibility up to 10.58GPa were determined with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. This high-pressure phase is isomorphous with cubic zirconia (fluorite-type) with space group Fm3̄m and unit-cell parameters a 1⁄4 4.8830(...