Hot pressed and spark plasma sintered zirconia/carbon nanofiber composites

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3177-3184

  Dusza, Ján ^a   Blugan, Gurdial ^b   Morgiel, Jerzy ^c   Kuebler, Jakob ^b   Inam, Fawad ^d   Peijs, Ton ^d   Reece, Michael J ^d   Puchy, Viktor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Slovakia)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3Y TZP; Carbon nanofiber; Electrical conductivity; Fracture; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

3Y-TZP; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; GRAPHITE LAYERS; HOT-PRESSED COMPOSITES; INDENTATION TOUGHNESS; MATRIX; NANOFIBER COMPOSITES; SINTERING ROUTES; SMALL GRAINS; SPARK PLASMA; WELL-DISPERSED;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC SPARKS; GRAPHITE; HOT PRESSING; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLASMAS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; YTTRIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

CARBON NANOFIBERS;

EID: 68949158470     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2009.05.030     Document Type: Article

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