Densification and microstructure development in spark plasma sintered WC-6 wt% ZrO2 nanocomposites

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1491-1501

  Biswas, Krishanu ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Amartya ^b   Basu, Bikramjit ^b   Chattopadhyay, Kamanio ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSIFICATION; DIFFUSION; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE; ZIRCONIA;

DIFFUSION KINETICS; NONSTOICHIOMETRIC NANOCRYSTALLINE;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 34347267566     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0189     Document Type: Article

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