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EP1802783B1
EP1802783B1 EP05815486A EP05815486A EP1802783B1 EP 1802783 B1 EP1802783 B1 EP 1802783B1 EP 05815486 A EP05815486 A EP 05815486A EP 05815486 A EP05815486 A EP 05815486A EP 1802783 B1 EP1802783 B1 EP 1802783B1
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    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
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  • the present invention relates to a method for coating a surface of a substrate with nanoparticles, a nanostructured coating obtainable by this method, and a device for implementing the process of the invention. invention.
  • the present invention also relates to optical, mechanical, chemical, electronic and energetic devices comprising a nanostructured coating obtainable by the method of the invention.
  • Nanostructured materials are defined as materials having nanoscale organization, i.e. on a scale ranging from a few nm to a few hundred nm. This size domain is where the characteristic lengths of the various physical, electronic, magnetic, optical, superconductivity, mechanical, and other processes are found. and where the surface plays a predominant role in these processes, which gives these "nanomaterials" specific and often exalted properties. Because of these characteristics, these materials offer real potential in the construction of new high-performance buildings with specific properties.
  • nanostructures makes it possible to develop innovative materials and offers the possibility of exploiting them in many different ways. areas such as optics, electronics, energy, etc. These nanomaterials offer undeniable fundamental benefits and important application and application potential in various future technologies such as fuel cells, "smart” coatings, resistant materials (thermal barrier).
  • the present invention makes it possible to develop new nanostructured coatings by a simple and easily industrializable process, and opens these technologies to manufacturers.
  • the essence of the "nano" concept is self-assembly, which leads complex molecules to form larger heterogeneous aggregates, capable of performing a sophisticated function or of constituting a material with unprecedented properties.
  • the inventors of the present are interested in plasma projection. It's about a a technique used in research laboratories and in industry to make deposits of ceramic, metallic or cermet materials, or polymers and combinations of these materials on different types of substrates (shape and nature). Its principle is as follows: the material to be deposited is injected dry in the plasma jet in the form of particles, average diameter generally greater than 5 microns, using a carrier gas. In this medium, the particles are melted totally or partially and accelerated to a substrate where they come to pile up.
  • the layer thus formed of thickness generally greater than 100 microns, has a strongly anisotropic lamellar structure characteristic of deposits made by plasma spraying. These techniques therefore do not make it possible to form nanoparticle coatings or coatings with thicknesses of less than 100 ⁇ m, up to a few microns.
  • the coatings obtained have the disadvantage of being micro-cracked, especially in the case of ceramics deposits, fragile materials that relax the internal stresses.
  • the coating obtained has a lamellar structure which strongly conditions its thermomechanical properties, which therefore clearly limits, a priori, the potential applications of the plasma projection.
  • Kear et al propose the injection of a solution containing agglomerates of nanostructured powders in the form of a spray in a plasma.
  • the use of a spray imposes different stages so that the size of the particles to be injected is sufficiently large (of the order of one micron) to penetrate into the plasma: drying of the solution containing small particles, agglomeration of these particles with a binder and colloidal suspension agglomerates larger than one micron.
  • This method requires ultrasonic assistance or the use of dispersants, for example surfactants, to maintain the dispersion of the particles in suspension in the liquid.
  • sol-gel deposition processes particularly in the field of optics. These processes usually use liquid deposition methods such as spin-coating, laminar coating, dip-coating, aerosol spray ("spray-coating"). These different techniques lead to thin layers whose thickness is generally less than one micron. Some of these deposition methods make it possible to coat large surfaces, for example from a few hundred cm 2 to a few m 2 , which is an advantage.
  • the coatings obtained by these processes crack beyond critical micron thicknesses.
  • the main cause of this major defect lies in the stress of voltage applied by the substrate during heat treatments necessary for their development.
  • Another disadvantage lies in the impossibility of depositing homogeneous coatings having a good adhesion, even for thicknesses greater than about 150 nm.
  • EP-A1-1 134 302 discloses a method for preparing nanoparticle films by thermal spraying techniques such as plasma spraying wherein a nanocompartmentalized solution of a metallic material is used as a filler.
  • said nanocompartmentalized solution is or may be a colloidal sol in which nanoparticles of a metal oxide are dispersed and stabilized.
  • the object of the present invention is precisely to provide a method for forming a nanostructured coating that meets the needs indicated above and provides a solution to all of the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • the object of the present invention is still to provide a coating of nanoparticles which does not have the drawbacks, defects and disadvantages of the coatings of the prior art, and which can be used in optical, mechanical, chemical, electronic and microsystem devices and microsystems. energy present and future with excellent performance.
  • the process of the invention is a process for coating a surface of a substrate with nanoparticles, characterized in that it comprises an injection of a colloidal sol of said nanoparticles into a thermal plasma jet which projects them onto said surface .
  • the inventors are the first to solve the aforementioned drawbacks of prior art techniques relating to plasma deposition by this method. Compared to the old techniques, it consists in particular to replace the injection gas in the dry process with a carrier liquid consisting of a colloidal sol. The projected particles are thus stabilized in a liquid medium before being accelerated in a plasma.
  • the method of the present invention also allows, unexpectedly, the preservation of the nanostructural properties of the projected material, by thermal projection of a stabilized suspension (sol) of nanoscale particles.
  • the method of the invention makes it possible to avoid the use of stabilizing additives such as dispersants or surfactants as in the processes of the prior art, and / or the essential use of additional dispersing means such as ultrasound atomization, mechanical agitation, etc. during the projection phase.
  • the present invention therefore makes it possible at the same time to preserve the purity of the projected material and to simplify the method of implementation. It is also notably thanks to the use of a soil that the aggregation of the nanoparticles is limited, and that the process of the invention results in a homogeneous nanostructured coating.
  • the inventors exploit the singular advantage of soils-gels to offer a very large number of physicochemical pathways for obtaining stable colloidal suspensions and nanoparticles.
  • the soft chemistry of constitution of the soils-gels makes it possible in particular to synthesize, from very numerous inorganic or organometallic precursors, a plurality of different metal oxides.
  • the present invention also uses the advantageous property of soils-gels to allow the synthesis of inorganic particles of different crystalline phases, in the same soil, for example using the hydrothermal route or in milder conditions.
  • the nucleation of the particles takes place in a liquid medium.
  • preferred conditions of the process of the invention make it possible to further limit or even avoid segregations of nanoparticles, concentration gradients or sedimentations.
  • plasma projection conditions as well as soil injection protocols allow to act on the quality of the nanoparticle coating formed, and, according to various examples presented below, can further improve the quality and to refine the conservation of the properties of the particles of the colloidal sol within the coating material.
  • the substrate may be organic, inorganic or mixed (that is to say organic and inorganic on the same surface). Preferably it supports the operating conditions of the process of the invention. It may consist for example of a material chosen from semiconductors such as silicon; organic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polycarbonate (PC), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC); metals such as gold, aluminum and silver; the glasses ; inorganic oxides, for example layered, such as SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , Ta 2 O 5 , MgO, etc. ; and composite or mixed materials comprising several of these materials.
  • semiconductors such as silicon
  • organic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polycarbonate (PC), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
  • metals such as gold, aluminum and silver
  • the surface of the substrate to be coated will optionally be cleaned in order to remove organic and / or inorganic contaminants which could prevent the deposition or even the attachment of the coating to the surface and improve the adhesion of the coating.
  • the cleaning used depends on the nature of the substrate and can be selected from the physical, chemical or mechanical processes known to those skilled in the art.
  • the cleaning process may be chosen from immersion in an organic solvent and / or washing detergent and / or etching assisted by ultrasound; these cleanings being eventually followed by rinsing with tap water, then rinsing with deionized water; these rinses being optionally followed by drying by "lift-out", by a spray of alcohol, by a jet of compressed air, with hot air, or by infrared rays.
  • Cleaning can also be a cleaning by ultraviolet rays.
  • nanoparticles particles of nanometric size, generally ranging from 1 nm to a few hundred nanometers. The term “particles” is also used.
  • a "sol-gel process” means a series of reactions where soluble metal species hydrolyze to form a metal hydroxide.
  • the sol-gel process involves a hydrolysis-condensation of metal precursors (salts and / or alkoxides) allowing easy stabilization and dispersion of particles in a growth medium.
  • Soil is a colloidal system in which the dispersion medium is a liquid and the dispersed phase is a solid. Soil is also called “colloidal sol-gel solution” or “colloidal sol.” The nanoparticles are dispersed and stabilized thanks to the colloidal sol.
  • the sol can be prepared by any method known to those skilled in the art. We will of course prefer the processes that make it possible to obtain a greater homogeneity of size of the nanoparticles, as well as a greater stabilization and dispersion of the nanoparticles.
  • the methods for preparing the sol-gel colloidal solution described herein include the various conventional methods for synthesizing nanoparticles dispersed and stabilized in a liquid medium.
  • the sol can be prepared for example by precipitation in an aqueous medium or by sol-gel synthesis in an organic medium from a precursor of nanoparticles.
  • the document [10] describes examples of this route of preparation by sol-gel synthesis in organic medium, with different precursors (metalloid salts, metal salts, metal alkoxides), usable in the present invention.
  • the nanoparticles can directly be stabilized in the solvent used during the synthesis or subsequently peptized if they are synthesized by precipitation. In both cases the suspension obtained is a soil.
  • the nanoparticle precursor is typically selected from the group consisting of a metalloid salt, a metal salt, a metal alkoxide, or a mixture thereof.
  • the metal or metalloid of the salt or alkoxide precursor of nanoparticles may be chosen for example from the group comprising silicon, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, aluminum, tantalum, niobium, cerium , nickel, iron, zinc, chromium, magnesium, cobalt, vanadium, barium, strontium, tin, scandium, indium, lead, yttrium, tungsten, manganese, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, cobalt, ruthenium, rhodium, europium and other rare earths, or a metal alkoxide of these metals.
  • the reducing agent may be chosen for example from those cited in the abovementioned documents, for example in the group comprising polyols, hydrazine and its derivatives, quinone and its derivatives, hydrides, alkali metals, cysteine and its derivatives, ascorbate and its derivatives.
  • the precursor of metal nanoparticles can be chosen for example from those cited in the aforementioned documents, for example in the group comprising the salts of metalloids or metals such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, cobalt, aluminum, ruthenium or rhodium or the various metal alkoxides of these metals.
  • the sol may be prepared by preparing a mixture of nanoparticles dispersed in a solvent, each family may be derived from the preparations described in documents [8], [9], [10] and Example 2 below.
  • the soil used in the process of the present invention may comprise, for example, nanoparticles of a metal oxide selected from the group consisting of SiO 2 , ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , Ta 2 O 5 , HfO 2 , ThO 2 , SnO 2 , VO 2 , In 2 O 3 , CeO 2 , ZnO, Nb 2 O 5 , V 2 O 5 , Al 2 O 3 , Sc 2 O 3 , Ce 2 O 3 , NiO, MgO, Y 2 O 3 , WO 3 , BaTiO 3 , Fe 2 O 3 , Fe 3 O 4 , Sr 2 O 3 , (PbZr) TiO 3 , (BaSr) TiO 3 , CO 2 O 3 , Cr 2 O 3 , Mn 2 O 3 , Mn 3 O 4 , Cr 3 O 4 , MnO 2 , RuO 2 or a combination of these oxides, for example by doping the particles or by mixing the particles.
  • the sol may comprise, for example, metallic nanoparticles of a metal chosen from the group comprising gold, silver, platinum, palladium, nickel, ruthenium or rhodium, or a mixture of different metallic nanoparticles made of these metals.
  • a metal chosen from the group comprising gold, silver, platinum, palladium, nickel, ruthenium or rhodium, or a mixture of different metallic nanoparticles made of these metals.
  • this list is not exhaustive since it includes all the metal oxides described in the aforementioned documents.
  • the size of the nanoparticles of the soil obtained is perfectly controlled by its synthesis conditions, in particular by the nature of the precursors used, the solvent (s), the pH, the temperature, etc. and can range from a few angstroms to a few microns. This control of the particle size in the preparation of the soil is described for example in document [12].
  • the nanoparticles preferably have a size of 1 to 100 nm, this especially in order to be able to achieve thin layers or coatings, for example with a thickness ranging from 0.1 to 50 ⁇ m.
  • the soil also comprises a carrier liquid, which comes from its manufacturing process, called growth medium.
  • This carrier liquid is an organic or inorganic solvent such as those described in the aforementioned documents. It may be for example a liquid selected from water, alcohols, ethers, ketones, aromatics, alkanes, halogens and any mixture thereof.
  • the pH of this carrier liquid depends on the soil manufacturing process and its chemical nature. It is usually from 1 to 14.
  • the nanoparticles are dispersed and stabilized in their growth medium, and this stabilization and / or dispersion can be promoted by the soil preparation process and the chemistry used (see above).
  • the process of the present invention takes advantage of this property of soils.
  • the sol may further comprise organic molecules. It may be, for example, molecules for stabilizing the nanoparticles in the soil and / or molecules that functionalize the nanoparticles.
  • an organic compound can be added to the nanoparticles to give them a particular property.
  • the stabilization of these nanoparticles in liquid medium by steric effect leads to materials called organic-inorganic hybrid materials of class I.
  • the interactions which regulate the stabilization of these particles are weak of electrostatic nature of hydrogen bonds or Van Der Waals type.
  • Such compounds usable in the present invention, and their effect on soils, are described for example in documents [13] and Example 2 below.
  • the particles can be functionalized with an organic compound either during synthesis by introduction of suitable organomineral precursors, or by grafting on the surface of the colloids. Examples have been given above. These materials are then called organic-inorganic class II materials since the interactions between the organic component and the mineral particle are strong, of a covalent or ionocovalent nature. Such materials and their method of production are described in document [13].
  • the properties of the hybrid materials that can be used in the present invention depend not only on the chemical nature of the organic and inorganic components used to form the soil, but also on the synergy that can appear between these two chemistries.
  • Document [13] describes the effects of the chemical nature of the organic and inorganic components used and of such synergies.
  • the method of the invention comprises injecting the colloidal sol in a jet or flow of thermal plasma.
  • the injection of the ground into the plasma jet can be carried out by any appropriate means of injecting a liquid, for example by means of an injector, by example in the form of jet or drops, preferably with a momentum adapted to be substantially identical to that of the plasma flow. Examples of injectors are given below.
  • the temperature of the soil during its injection may range, for example, from room temperature (20 ° C.) to a temperature below its boiling point.
  • it is possible to control and modify the temperature of the soil for its injection for example to be from 0 ° C. to 100 ° C.
  • the soil then has a different surface tension, depending on the temperature imposed, resulting in a more or less rapid and efficient fragmentation mechanism when it arrives in the plasma.
  • the temperature can therefore have an effect on the quality of the coating obtained.
  • the injected soil for example in the form of drops, enters the plasma jet, where it is exploded into a multitude of droplets under the effect of plasma shear forces.
  • the size of these droplets can be adjusted according to the desired microstructure of the deposit, depending on the properties of the soil (liquid) and the plasma flow.
  • the size of the droplets ranges from 0.1 to 10 ⁇ m.
  • the kinetic and thermal energies of the plasma jet serve respectively to disperse the drops in a multitude of droplets (fragmentation), then to vaporize the liquid.
  • the liquid soil reaches the jet core, which is a medium at high temperature and high speed, it is vaporized and the nanoparticles are accelerated to be collected on the substrate to form a nanostructured deposit (coating) having a crystalline structure identical to that of the particles initially present in the starting soil.
  • the vaporization of the liquid brings about the bringing together of fine nanoparticles of material belonging to the same droplet and their agglomeration.
  • the resulting agglomerates are found in the heart of the plasma where they are melted, partially or totally, then accelerated before being collected on the substrate. If the agglomerate fusion is complete, the grain size in the deposit is a few hundred nanometers to a few microns. On the other hand, if the melting is only partial, the size of the grains in the deposit is close to that of the particles contained in the starting liquid and the crystalline properties of the particles are well preserved within the deposit.
  • thermal plasmas are plasmas producing a jet having a temperature of 5000 K to 15000 K. In the implementation of the method of the invention, this temperature range is preferred.
  • the temperature of the plasma used for the projection of the ground on the surface to be coated may be different. It will be chosen according to the chemical nature of the soil and the desired coating. According to the invention, the temperature will be chosen so as to be preferentially in a configuration of partial or total melting of the particles of the soil, preferably partial melting to best preserve their starting properties within the layer.
  • the plasma may be for example an arc plasma, blown or not, or an inductive or radiofrequency plasma, for example in supersonic mode. It can operate at atmospheric pressure or at lower pressure.
  • the documents [14], [15] and [16] describe plasmas that can be used in the present invention, and the plasma torches making it possible to generate them.
  • the plasma torch used is an arc plasma torch.
  • the plasma jet may advantageously be generated from a plasmagenic gas chosen from the group comprising Ar, H 2 , He and N 2 .
  • the jet of plasma constituting the jet has a viscosity of 10 -4 to 5 ⁇ 10 -4 kg / ms
  • the plasma jet is an arc plasma jet.
  • the substrate to be coated is, for obvious reasons, preferentially positioned relative to the plasma jet so that the projection of the nanoparticles is directed on the surface to be coated. Different tests make it very easy to find an optimal position. The positioning is adjusted for each application, according to the selected projection conditions and the microstructure of the desired deposit.
  • the rate of growth of the deposits depends essentially on the mass percentage of material in the liquid and the flow of liquid. With the method of the invention, it is possible easily obtain a coating deposition rate of nanoparticles of 1 to 100 microns / min.
  • the thin layers or coatings which can be obtained by the process of the invention may consist of grains of smaller size or of the order of one micron. They can be dense or porous. They can be pure and homogeneous.
  • the synthesis of a stable and homogeneous sol-gel solution of nanoparticles of defined particle size associated with the liquid plasma spraying method of the invention makes it possible to preserve the intrinsic properties of the starting sol within the deposit and to obtain a nanostructured coating in advantageously controlling the properties following porosity / density; homogeneity in composition; "exotic" stoichiometry (mixed soils and mixtures); nanometric structure (size and crystalline phases); granulometry of the grains; thickness of the homogeneous deposit on object with a complex shape; possibility of deposit on all types of substrates, whatever their nature and their roughness.
  • the process of the invention may be carried out several times on the same substrate surface, with different soils - in composition and / or in concentration and / or in particle size - to produce successive layers of different materials or deposits with compositional gradients.
  • These deposits of successive layers are useful for example in applications such as layers with electrical properties (electrode and electrolyte), layers with optical properties (low and high refractive index), thermal property layers (conductive and insulating), diffusion barrier layers and / or controlled porosity layers.
  • the projection method of the present invention is easily industrializable since its specificity and its innovative character reside in particular in the injection system which can adapt to all thermal spray machines already present in the industry; in the nature of the sol-gel solution; and in the choice of plasma conditions for obtaining a nanostructured coating having the properties of the projected particles.
  • the plasma torch is capable of producing a plasma jet having a temperature of 5000 K to 15000 K.
  • the plasma torch is capable of producing a plasma jet having a viscosity of 10 -4 to 5 ⁇ 10 - 4 kg / ms
  • the plasma torch is an arc plasma torch. Examples of plasmagenic gases are given above, the reservoirs of these gases are commercially available. The reasons for these advantageous choices are outlined above.
  • the device that can be used for carrying out the process of the invention comprises several reservoirs respectively containing several sols loaded with nanoparticles, the sols being different from each other by their composition and / or diameter and / or concentration.
  • the device may further comprise a cleaning tank containing a solution for cleaning the piping and the injector.
  • the piping and the injector can be cleaned between each implementation of the process.
  • the injector makes it possible to inject the ground into the plasma. It is preferably such that the injected soil mechanically fragments at the outlet of the injector in the form of drops as indicated above.
  • the hole of the injector may be of any form for injecting the colloidal sol in the plasma jet, preferably under the aforementioned conditions.
  • the hole is circular.
  • the hole of the injector has a diameter of 10 to 500 ⁇ m.
  • the device may be provided with several injectors, for example according to the quantities of soil to be injected.
  • the inclination of the injector relative to the longitudinal axis of the plasma jet can vary from 20 to 160 °.
  • the injector can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the plasma jet. These movements are indicated schematically on the figure 2 attached.
  • the injection of the colloidal sol in the plasma jet can be oriented. This orientation makes it possible to optimize the injection of the colloidal sol, and thus the formation of the projected coating on the surface of the substrate.
  • the soil injection line may be thermostatically controlled to control and possibly modify the temperature of the injected soil. This temperature control and this modification can be carried out at the level of the pipes and / or at the level of the tanks.
  • the device may comprise means for fixing and moving the substrate relative to the plasma torch.
  • This means may consist of clamps or equivalent system for gripping (securing) the substrate and maintaining it during the plasma projection at a selected position, and means for moving in rotation and in translation the surface of the substrate facing the plasma jet and in the longitudinal direction of the plasma jet.
  • Direct injection can be achieved by means of a well-adapted injection system, for example using the device described above, of a stable suspension of nanoparticles, a solution called "sol" since it results from the synthesis of a colloid by sol-gel process involving the hydrolysis condensation of metal precursors (salts or alkoxides) allowing stabilization and easy dispersion of particles in their growth medium.
  • a solution called "sol” since it results from the synthesis of a colloid by sol-gel process involving the hydrolysis condensation of metal precursors (salts or alkoxides) allowing stabilization and easy dispersion of particles in their growth medium.
  • the present invention thus also relates to an optical and / or electronic device comprising a nanostructured coating that can be obtained by the method of the invention, that is to say having the physical and chemical characteristics of the coatings obtained by the method of the invention.
  • the present invention thus also relates to a fuel cell comprising a nanostructured coating obtainable by the method of the invention, that is to say having the physical and chemical characteristics of the coatings obtained by the process of the invention. 'invention.
  • the present invention therefore also relates to a thermal barrier comprising a coating that can be obtained by the method of the invention, that is to say having the physical and chemical characteristics of the coatings obtained by the method of the invention.
  • aqueous sol of zirconia (ZrO 2 ) at 10% is injected into an argon-hydrogen blown arc plasma (75% by volume of Ar).
  • the injection system comprises a reservoir (R) containing the colloidal sol (7) and a cleaning tank (N), containing a cleaning liquid (L) of the injector and the pipe (v). It also includes pipes (v) for conveying liquids from the tanks to the injector (I), pressure regulators (m) allowing to adjust the pressure in the tanks (pressure ⁇ 2x10 6 Pa).
  • the assembly is connected to a compression gas (G), here air, to create in the pipes a network of compressed air. Under the effect of pressure, the liquid is conveyed to the injector.
  • G compression gas
  • the diameter of the outlet orifice (t) of the injector (I) is 150 ⁇ m and the pressure in the reservoir (R) containing the soil is 0.4 MPa, which involves a liquid flow of 20 ml / min and a speed of 16 m / s.
  • the soil exits the injector in the form of a jet of liquid that mechanically fragments in the form of large drops of calibrated diameter ranging from 2 microns to 1 mm, on average two times greater than the diameter of the circular exit hole.
  • the injector ( figure 2 ) can be inclined with respect to the axis of the plasma jet from 20 to 160 °. In the tests, a 90 ° inclination was used.
  • the average diameter of the crystallites, observed in transmission electron microscopy, is about 9 nm as shown by the photographs of the figure 4 (see example 2 below).
  • the zirconia deposits from the plasma projection are obtained at 70 mm from the intersection between the jet of liquid and the plasma jet.
  • Different types of substrates have been tested to be coated: aluminum plates, silicon wafers or glass plates.
  • the deposition rate was 0.3 ⁇ m each time the torch passed the substrate.
  • the thickness of the deposits obtained was between 4 ⁇ m and 100 ⁇ m.
  • the size of the crystals in the coating (deposit) is between 10 and 20 nm; it is very close to that of particles of the starting soil.
  • TEM Transmission electron microscopy
  • the surface condition of the substrate does not interfere with the adhesion of the plasma deposit.
  • Example 1 The zirconia sol of Example 1, having specific properties of the present invention (dispersion and stabilization), is projected into a plasma jet as described in Example 1.
  • This zirconia sol consists of crystalline nanoparticles in the monoclinic phase and in the quadratic phase. A size distribution was made from transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs of the zirconia sol. The average diameter of the zirconia particles is 9 nm. The right photograph on the figure 4 annexed presents a photograph taken by transmission electron microscopy on this zirconia sol used. The line at the bottom left indicates the scale of the shot. This line represents 10 nm in the photograph.
  • TEM transmission electron microscopy
  • the deposition carried out by plasma spraying of said sol according to the process of the invention consists, according to the surface and thickness transmission microscopy (TEM) analysis, of zirconia nanoparticles of morphology similar to those of starting and average diameter of 10 nm. These measures are deductible from Figures 6a and 6b attached.
  • the line at the bottom right of these snapshots indicates the scale of the snapshot. This line represents 100 nm on the top photograph ( figure 6a ), and 50 nm on the bottom photograph ( figure 6b ).
  • the zirconia sol like the zirconia deposit resulting from this sol, has crystallites of identical diameter and crystallized according to the same two monoclinic and quadratic phases.
  • the following table shows the distribution in% of these crystalline phases present in the zirconia sol and the zirconia deposit, as well as their size.
  • Materials Distribution of crystalline phases Sizes of crystallites monoclinic Quadratic monoclinic Quadratic Sol ZrO 2 65% 35% 11.8 nm 8.9 nm ZrO 2 deposit 61% 39% 12 nm 8.9 nm
  • This example illustrates one of the many modes of preparation of a nanoparticle sol that can be used to implement the present invention.
  • Transmission electron microscopy observations reveal an average colloid diameter of about 10 nm.
  • the X-ray pattern is characteristic of that of titanium oxide in anatase form.
  • the pH of this sol is about 2 and the mass concentration of TiO 2 is brought to 10% by distillation (100 ° C, 10 5 Pa).
  • the colloidal solution of nanoparticles can be filtered, for example to 0.45 ⁇ m.

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