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4 Results and discussion<br />

The <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> pore size <strong>in</strong> comb<strong>in</strong>ation with a decrease of the relative microporous<br />

adsorbed volume Vmicro/Vtotal (56-6%) with <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g temperature is <strong>in</strong> agreement with<br />

the results found by Xu et al. 112 The pore size <strong>in</strong>crease seems to be coupled with the<br />

<strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> crystal size, which <strong>in</strong>creases from 6.1 at 400ºC to 19 nm at 600ºC (Figure 54).<br />

Similar trend have been observer <strong>for</strong> the TiO2 powders.<br />

Table 24 Microstructure properties of dried ZrO2 sols<br />

Calc<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

Temp. <strong>in</strong> [ºC]<br />

Crystal<br />

size nm<br />

SBET<br />

m 2 /g<br />

Vtotal<br />

cm 3 /g<br />

Vmicro<br />

cm 3 /g<br />

SF nm BJH<br />

nm<br />

140 amorphous - - - -<br />

400 6.1 74 0.034 0.019 1.5 -<br />

500 8.3 77 0.054 0.019 2.2 -<br />

600 19 6 0.011 0.001 4.0<br />

Vads / cm 3 g -1<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

500ºC<br />

400ºC<br />

600ºC<br />

85<br />

ZrO 2<br />

0,0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1,0<br />

p/p0 0<br />

Figure 52 N2 isotherms ZrO2 calc<strong>in</strong>ed at 400ºC (◊), 500ºC (○) and 600ºC (□).<br />

Open symbols present the adsorption and closed symbols the desorption po<strong>in</strong>ts.<br />

The dried ZrO2 sols crystallize to tetragonal ZrO2 <strong>in</strong> the temperature range of 140-400ºC.<br />

The TG plot (Figure 53) of dried ZrO2 can be subdivided <strong>in</strong>to three steps. The first step<br />

presents the water and loosely bounded organic removal <strong>in</strong> the temperature range of 50 to<br />

300ºC. A sharp weight loss is obta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> the second step up to 400ºC where the am<strong>in</strong>e<br />

groups leave the <strong>in</strong>organic-organic material <strong>in</strong> comb<strong>in</strong>ation with crystallisation. No

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