Preparation of Cubic/tetragonal zirconia composites through stabilizer coating method

In this study tetragonal/cubic ziconia based composite electrolytes were prepared through stabilizer coating technique. Microstructures were characterized by XRD and SEM.Hardness and fracture toughness was measure by indentation farcture toughness. It was shown that stabilizer coating is an attractive technique to prepare high performance solid electrolytes with improved mechanical properties with low level of consumed stabilizer. Increasing tetragonal phase content of composite samples improves mechanical properties of the samples.