Zirconium nanoparticles prepared by the reduction of zirconium oxide using the RAPET method

• Michal Eshed,
• Swati Pol,
• Aharon Gedanken and
• Mahalingam Balasubramanian

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 198–203, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.23

• reaction of commercial ZrO2 with Mg powder was carried out in a closed stainless steel cell, at 750 °C. On completion of the reaction, the additionally formed MgO is removed by treatment with acid. The characterization of the product was performed by XRD, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, SEM, TEM and

• Temperatures), and is described elsewhere in detail [11]. In general, a stainless steel cell is filled with a single reactant (or a combination of reactants) and heated at an appropriate temperature under its autogenic pressure. The pressure is generated by the thermal dissociation of reactants and the Let-Lok

• observed in the XRD pattern. In addition, XANES measurements found that in the Zr sample at least 75% of the Zr atoms are in the fully reduced Zr0 state. Experimental Chemicals, ZrO2, and Mg, were obtained from Aldrich. A 3 mL closed vessel cell was assembled from stainless steel (made by HAM-LET, Israel