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Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2022, 11(12): 1956-1975 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0659-2
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Elucidating the role of preferential oxidation during ablation: Insights on the design and optimization of multicomponent ultra-high temperature ceramics

Show Author's Information Ziming YE,  Yi ZENG( ),  Xiang XIONG( ),  Qingbo WEN,  Huilin LUN
State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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oxidation behavior, ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs), multicomponent ceramics, preferential oxidation, ablation resistance
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YE Z, ZENG Y, XIONG X, et al. Elucidating the role of preferential oxidation during ablation: Insights on the design and optimization of multicomponent ultra-high temperature ceramics. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2022, 11(12): 1956-1975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0659-2
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Multicomponent ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are promising candidates for thermal protection materials (TPMs) used in aerospace field. However, finding out desirable compositions from an enormous number of possible compositions remains challenging. Here, through elucidating the role of preferential oxidation in ablation behavior of multicomponent UHTCs via the thermodynamic analysis and experimental verification, the correlation between the composition and ablation performance of multicomponent UHTCs was revealed from the aspect of thermodynamics. We found that the metal components in UHTCs can be thermodynamically divided into preferentially oxidized component (denoted as MP), which builds up a skeleton in oxide layer, and laggingly oxidized component (denoted as ML), which fills the oxide skeleton. Meanwhile, a thermodynamically driven gradient in the concentration of MP and ML forms in the oxide layer. Based on these findings, a strategy for pre-evaluating the ablation performance of multicomponent UHTCs was developed, which provides a preliminary basis for the composition design of multicomponent UHTCs.


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Elucidating the role of preferential oxidation during ablation: Insights on the design and optimization of multicomponent ultra-high temperature ceramics

Show Author's information Ziming YE, Yi ZENG( ), Xiang XIONG( ), Qingbo WEN, Huilin LUN
State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

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Multicomponent ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are promising candidates for thermal protection materials (TPMs) used in aerospace field. However, finding out desirable compositions from an enormous number of possible compositions remains challenging. Here, through elucidating the role of preferential oxidation in ablation behavior of multicomponent UHTCs via the thermodynamic analysis and experimental verification, the correlation between the composition and ablation performance of multicomponent UHTCs was revealed from the aspect of thermodynamics. We found that the metal components in UHTCs can be thermodynamically divided into preferentially oxidized component (denoted as MP), which builds up a skeleton in oxide layer, and laggingly oxidized component (denoted as ML), which fills the oxide skeleton. Meanwhile, a thermodynamically driven gradient in the concentration of MP and ML forms in the oxide layer. Based on these findings, a strategy for pre-evaluating the ablation performance of multicomponent UHTCs was developed, which provides a preliminary basis for the composition design of multicomponent UHTCs.

Keywords: oxidation behavior, ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs), multicomponent ceramics, preferential oxidation, ablation resistance

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Received: 28 April 2022
Revised: 02 September 2022
Accepted: 06 September 2022
Published: 03 November 2022
Issue date: December 2022

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52072410 and 51602349) and Innovation-driven Project of Central South University. The authors would like to thank Qiankun Yang (Central South University) for the TEM analysis and Jingli Liu (Xidian University) for the assistance in the data processing of thermodynamic calculations.

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