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Jiahe Liang1, Zhaoxiang Deng, Xin Jiang
1Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China.
Inorganic Chemistry
|July 9, 2002
Abstract:
Polymer-stabilized tetragonal ZrO(2) nanopowders with average size of ca. 2.0 nm have been prepared by microwave heating in an aqueous solution containing Zr(NO(3))(4) x 5H(2)O, PVA, and NaOH. The photoluminescence of the synthesized ZrO(2) fine particles has been investigated.
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