Abstract
Nanocrystalline powders in the ZrO2-Y2O3-CeO2-CoO-Al2O3 system with 1 and 10 mol% Al2O3 were prepared via hydrothermal treatment in alkaline medium. The characteristics of nanocrystalline powders after heat treatment in the temperature range from 500 to 1200 ?C were investigated by XRD phase analysis, scanning electron microscopy, petrography and BET measurements. It was found that hydrothermally treated powders contained metastable low-temperature cubic solid solution based on ZrO2 and addition of Al2O3 increased temperature of phase transformation of the metastable cubic- ZrO2 to tetragonal-ZrO2. It was evidenced that both powders remained nanocrystalline after all processing steps with the average particle sizes from 8 to 20 nm. The addition of 0.3 mol% CoO allows one to obtain composites with good sinterability at 1200 ?C.
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