An effective strategy for preparing transparent ceramics using nanorod powders based on pressure-assisted particle fracture and rearrangement

Zhangyi HUANG; Yang SHI; Yutong ZHANG; Mao DENG; Yi GUO; Qingquan KONG; Jianqi QI; Benyuan MA; Qingyuan WANG; Haomin WANG

doi:10.1007/s40145-022-0661-8

Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2022, 11(12): 1976-1987 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0661-8

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An effective strategy for preparing transparent ceramics using nanorod powders based on pressure-assisted particle fracture and rearrangement

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Zhangyi HUANG^{¹^,^†}, Yang SHI^{²^,^†}, Yutong ZHANG^³, Mao DENG^², Yi GUO^², Qingquan KONG^², Jianqi QI^³, Benyuan MA^⁴, Qingyuan WANG^{¹^,²}(

), Haomin WANG^¹

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1 Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China

2 School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China

3 College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

4 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Electronic Functional Materials and Devices, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516001, China

† Zhangyi Huang and Yang Shi contributed equally to this work.

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spark plasma sintering (SPS), transparent ceramics, nanorods, Y₂O₃, fracture and rearrangement

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HUANG Z, SHI Y, ZHANG Y, et al. An effective strategy for preparing transparent ceramics using nanorod powders based on pressure-assisted particle fracture and rearrangement. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2022, 11(12): 1976-1987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0661-8

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Achieving full densification of some ceramic materials, such as Y₂O₃, without sintering aids by spark plasma sintering (SPS) is a great challenge when plastic deformation contributes limitedly to the densification as the yield stress of the material at an elevated temperature is higher than the applied sintering pressure. Herein, we demonstrate that particle fracture and rearrangement is an effective strategy to promote the densification during the pressure-assisted sintering process. Specifically, Y₂O₃ nanocrystalline powders composed of nanorod and near-spherical particles were synthesized and sintered at various temperatures by the SPS. The results show that the relative density of the ceramics prepared by the nanorod powders is higher than the density of the ceramics from the near-spherical powders after 600 ℃ due to the fracture and rearrangement of the nanorods at low temperatures, which leads to the decrease of particle size and the increase of density and homogeneity. Based on this novel densification mechanism, ultrafine-grained Y₂O₃ transparent ceramics with good optical and mechanical properties were fabricated successfully from the nanorod powders.

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An effective strategy for preparing transparent ceramics using nanorod powders based on pressure-assisted particle fracture and rearrangement

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Zhangyi HUANG^{¹^,^†}, Yang SHI^{²^,^†}, Yutong ZHANG^³, Mao DENG^², Yi GUO^², Qingquan KONG^², Jianqi QI^³, Benyuan MA^⁴, Qingyuan WANG^{¹^,²}(

), Haomin WANG^¹

(

)

1 Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China

2 School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China

3 College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

4 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Electronic Functional Materials and Devices, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516001, China

† Zhangyi Huang and Yang Shi contributed equally to this work.

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Keywords: spark plasma sintering (SPS), transparent ceramics, nanorods, Y₂O₃, fracture and rearrangement

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Received: 09 May 2022

Revised: 03 September 2022

Accepted: 13 September 2022

Published: 12 November 2022

Issue date: December 2022

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11802042 and 51672100), the Key Research and Development Program of Sichuan Provence (No. 2020YFG0192), and International Cooperation Project of Guangdong Province (No. 2019A050510049).

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