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• TITLE: Synthesis of Zirconia Oxide (ZrO2) Nanofibers on Zirconnia Substrates by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis

  AUTHORS: Jianhui Zhang, Wei Li, Takayoshi Tanji

  KEYWORDS: Nanofibers; Chemical Vapor Deposition; EDS

  JOURNAL NAME: Materials Sciences and Applications, Vol.5 No.4, March 25, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Zirconia oxide (ZrO2) nanofibers were synthesized using Phosphorus/water mixture as catalyst by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis CVD on the zirconia substrate at 900°C for 1 h in N2 gas. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) examinations show that all the synthesized nanofibers have uniform surface morphology and their diameters are in the range of 100 nm. The HRTEM selected-area electron diffraction pattern (SAED) shows that crystalline ZrO2 phase exist in the nanofibers, and the energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) results show that the elements of Zr and O are uniformly distributed across the nanofiber matrix. The phosphorus atoms corroded the entire Zirconia substrate surface, and the Zirconia-Phosphorus liquid-catalyzed the solid-liquid-solid mechanism is proposed to explain the growth of the nanofibers.