Elimination of grain boundary glass in a-sialon by adding aluminium nitride

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1065-1071

  Shuba, Roman ^a   Chen, I Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; ALUMINUM NITRIDE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; POSITIVE IONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMICS;

GRAIN BOUNDARY GLASS; INTERSTITIAL CATIONS; RESIDUAL GLASS;

GLASS;

EID: 33644683981     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2005.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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