Recently, more and more interest has been focused on zirconia and its chara- cteristics. In this paper, aluminum can be successfully incorporated into nano-ZrO2 via a cationic surfactant assisted route in the earlier preparation procedure. XRD, TEM, EDS, Uv-vis and N2 adsorption-desorption analysis methods were adopted for the characterization of prepared samples. The results show that aluminum has been homogeneously incorporated into nano-ZrO2. The prepared aluminum-doped samples show a distinctive blue shift in the Uv-vis spectra compared to normal nano-ZrO2. The distinctive increase of thermal stability and a mesoporous structure were observed.