Preparation of Zirconium Oxide Powder Using Zirconium Carboxylate Precursors

Figure 4

Geometrical illustration of acetic and propanoic acids and dissociatively adsorbed acetic and propionic acids on m-ZrO₂. The bond length between oxygen and hydrogen is in the unit of Å. The energies are adsorption energies. The separated distance of surface carboxylate species is (a) ~5.4 Å and (b) ~3.8 Å.

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