Crystal structure, short-range oxygen defects, and water adsorption in La- and Nd-modified ZrO{sub 2}
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gifu (Japan)
Doping Rare-earth (RE) elements to ZrO{sub 2} helps stabilize the cubic and tetragonal phases and improves resistance to thermal shock and sintering at high temperatures. Since a RE ion has a lower valency (3{sup +}) than Zr ion (4{sup +}), oxygen vacancies are formed to preserve electroneutrality. We have studied the crystal structure of La{sub 0.1}Zr{sub 0.9}O{sub 1.95} and Nd{sub 0.1}Zr{sub 0.9}O{sub 1.95} by neutron diffraction and examined the associated oxygen defects by a Fourier transform of the filtered residual diffuse scattering. The hydration process was investigated by inelastic neutron-scattering measurements of the hydrogen vibrational density of states of the surface hydroxyl groups and physisorbed water on these fine powders. We compare the O-H stretch vibrations for samples from with only surface hydroxyl groups to multilayer coverage of water molecules. The decreasing energies and increasing widths of the O-H stretch bands with increasing H{sub 2}O coverage indicate the influence of hydrogen bonding on the motion of water molecules. Similar elastic and inelastic experiments were also performed on a high surface-area pure ZrO{sub 2} powder.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 26589
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/IPNS/CP-83321; CONF-941144-71; ON: DE95007134; TRN: 95:008278
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Fall meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Boston, MA (United States), 28 Nov - 9 Dec 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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