Abstract
Submicrometer-sized tetragonal zirconia spheres are synthesized by carbon-assisted selective pulsed laser heating in a liquid medium at room temperature. Sphere formation and phase transformation from the monoclinic to the tetragonal phase are only observed by laser irradiation of a colloidal solution containing raw zirconia mechanically milled with nanocarbon. This result indicates that nanocarbon, having close contact with zirconia particles, plays a very important role in forming submicrometer-sized tetragonal zirconia spheres.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 115602 |
| Journal | Nanotechnology |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - 23 Mar 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |