Flash sintering of nanograin zirconia in <5 s at 850°C

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3556-3559

  Cologna, Marco ^a   Rashkova, Boriana ^b   Raj, Rishi ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC ELECTRICAL; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN-BOUNDARY DIFFUSION; GREEN DENSITIES; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; KINETIC EFFECT; MICROWAVE-ASSISTED TECHNIQUE; NANO GRAINS; SINTERING PROCESS; SPARK PLASMA; THERMODYNAMIC EFFECT; YTTRIUM STABILIZED ZIRCONIA;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SINTERING; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIA;

GRAIN GROWTH;

EID: 78549240630     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04089.x     Document Type: Article

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