High-Pressure, High-Temperature Formation of Phase-Pure Monoclinic Zirconia Nanocrystals Studied by Time-Resolved in situ Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction

High-pressure, high-temperature, time-resolved X-ray diffraction is used to study the gel formation of aqueous zirconium acetate, and the crystallization into phase-pure, monoclinic, anisotropic nanocrystals.