A sensitive and reproducible method for the direct spectrophotometric determination of zirconium is reported. The method is based on zirconium forms a stable bluish violet colour complex with Chrome Azurol S (CAS) which has maximum absorption at 598 nm at pH 4.2. The complex obeys Beer’s law in the concentration range of 1-7 μg/mL. Detection limit, molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity w...

Aluminium based nanostructured materials with additions of 0.5, 1 and 1.5 weight% of zirconium have been produced and sintered using the spark plasma sintering technique in order to promote the nucleation of ZrAl3 platelets. The mechanical behaviour of all these nanocomposites was determined by means of the Small Punch Test. Zirconium additions significantly decrease the mechanical properties o...

It is well known that the structure of ZrO2 powder synthesized by low temperature calcination of hydrous zirconia is strongly affected by the nature and properties of precursors. In the present paper, we combined a precipitation/restructuring approach (bottom-up/top-down methodology) to produce zirconium hydroxide nanoparticles that transform into stable nanophasic tetragonal zirconia by low te...

The favourable mechanical properties and high biocompatibility of the newly developed mixed ceramics composed of zirconium oxide and aluminium oxide have continuously extended the scope of their application. Rotating instruments on a zirconium oxide basis are regarded as superior to metal burs in dentoalveolar surgery in terms of favourable temperature effects on the surrounding bone tissue and...

The structures of free-standing zirconium nanowires with 0.6−2.8 nm in diameter are systematically studied by using genetic algorithm simulations with a tight-binding many body potential. Several multi-shell growth sequences with cylindrical structures are obtained. These multi-shell structures are composed of coaxial atomic shells with the threeand four-strands helical, centered pentagonal and...

The primary goal of this preparation method was synthesis of uniformly coated ZrO2/SBA-15 materials exhibiting high dispersion and accessibility of zirconium using a layerwise deposition method to minimize growth of large crystallites. SBA15 was prepared the original method by Zhao et al.1 First 10g of SBA-15 was dried at 300°C for 4 hours. Then the dried SBA-15 and 58.5g of zirconium precursor...

Hardness was measured for six different nominally pure and single-phase high-entropy diboride ceramics with the AlB2 structure that were produced by a two-step process. Most of had relative densities greater than 99.5%. Vickers hardness average values ranged from 21.0 GPa to 25.4 at load 9.81 N, while increased range 33.1 48.3 0.49 N. Among compositions, highest N 48.3±2.3 (Cr0.2Hf0.2Ta0.2Ti0.2...