Gani, Mary Susan Jean Wirth, Hans-Jurgen Aguilar, Marie Isabel Hearn, Milton Thomas William Vanselow, Donald George Cheang, Philip Hong Ning Eriksson, Kjell-Ove Zirconia particles Porous zirconia or zirconium-containing particles, methods of making such particles and methods of using such particles including modifications to the surface of the particles are described. The method comprises heating zirconia particles to provide a substantially homogeneously liquid melt, quenching the particles of melt to effect spinodal decomposition to provide quench particles of a silica rich phase and a zirconia rich phase, annealing the quenched particles to provide non porous solid particles of zirconia and silica and, leaching the silica from these particles to produce porous solid zirconia particles comprising a three dimensionally substantially continuous inter penetrating network of inter-connected pores. Zirconia;Zirconium;partilces;surface treament;Patents -- United States;United States -- Patents and Trademark Office;1999;eng;Monash University Patents Collection;1959.1/23458;1959.1/2724;monash:2724;US005910462A;WO95/04012 2016-09-08
    https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/standard/Zirconia_particles/3810972
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