Two preparations of tetragonal zirconia (t-ZrO,) stabilized with 3 mol% Y,O, have been characterized, and their features compared with those of a 2 mol% t-ZrO, preparation and of a monoclinic zirconia (m-ZrO,) preparation. At ambient temperature, CO adsorption occurs only on surface cationic Lewis acid sites located in crystallographically defective configurations. The various t-ZrO, preparations present several types of such defective sites, depending on the temperature of the sintering stage. The spectral features of the ambient-temperature interaction of t-ZrO, with CO are complemented, on quantitative grounds, by gas-volumetric and microcalorimetric data. At high firing temperatures, amorphous phases start segregating from the t-ZrO, crystallites, causing the ambient-temperature adsorptive capacity towards CO to decline. Upon CO adsorption at low temperaure (ca. 77 K), weaker adspecies form prevalently. These are ascribed to CO adsorption on cationic Lewis acid sites located in regular patches of low-index crystal planes, and to CO H-bonded to surface OH groups. Different t-ZrO, preparations and differently sintered samples exhibit different particle sizes and various proportions of crystal surface defect sites vs. regular-face terminations : these differences are reliably monitored by CO adsorption patterns observed via iR spectroscopy, both at 300 and ca. 77 K.

Surface characterization of yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia. Part 2 - The adsorption of CO

MORTERRA, Claudio;CERRATO, Giuseppina;LAMBERTI, Carlo;
1995-01-01

Abstract

Two preparations of tetragonal zirconia (t-ZrO,) stabilized with 3 mol% Y,O, have been characterized, and their features compared with those of a 2 mol% t-ZrO, preparation and of a monoclinic zirconia (m-ZrO,) preparation. At ambient temperature, CO adsorption occurs only on surface cationic Lewis acid sites located in crystallographically defective configurations. The various t-ZrO, preparations present several types of such defective sites, depending on the temperature of the sintering stage. The spectral features of the ambient-temperature interaction of t-ZrO, with CO are complemented, on quantitative grounds, by gas-volumetric and microcalorimetric data. At high firing temperatures, amorphous phases start segregating from the t-ZrO, crystallites, causing the ambient-temperature adsorptive capacity towards CO to decline. Upon CO adsorption at low temperaure (ca. 77 K), weaker adspecies form prevalently. These are ascribed to CO adsorption on cationic Lewis acid sites located in regular patches of low-index crystal planes, and to CO H-bonded to surface OH groups. Different t-ZrO, preparations and differently sintered samples exhibit different particle sizes and various proportions of crystal surface defect sites vs. regular-face terminations : these differences are reliably monitored by CO adsorption patterns observed via iR spectroscopy, both at 300 and ca. 77 K.
1995
91(1)
113
123
t-ZrO2; CO adsorption; crystal morphology; surface structure.
C. Morterra; G. Cerrato; V. Bolis; C. Lamberti; L. Ferroni; L. Montanaro
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