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Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2023, 12(6): 1238-1257 https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220753
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Low-temperature and flexible strategy to in-situ fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via doping and tuning solid-state reaction

Show Author's Information Bohan Wanga,  Le Fua( ),  Junjie Songb,c( ),  Wenjun Yua,  Ying Denga,  Guofu Xua,  Jiwu Huanga,  Wei Xiad
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Shandong Laboratory of Yantai Advanced Materials and Green Manufacturing, Yantai 264006, China
Applied Materials Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 21, Sweden
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wear resistance, mechanical properties, solid-state reaction, zircon (ZrSiO4), ceramic composite, zirconia (ZrO2)–silica (SiO2)
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Wang B, Fu L, Song J, et al. Low-temperature and flexible strategy to in-situ fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via doping and tuning solid-state reaction. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2023, 12(6): 1238-1257. https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220753
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Synthetic zircon (ZrSiO4) ceramics are typically fabricated at elevated temperatures (over 1500 ℃), which would lead to high manufacturing cost. Meanwhile, reports about preparing ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via controlling the solid-state reaction between zirconia (ZrO2) and silica (SiO2) are limited. In this work, we proposed a low-temperature strategy to flexibly design and fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via doping and tuning the solid-state reaction. Two ceramic composites and ZrSiO4 ceramics were in-situ prepared by reactive fast hot pressing (FHP) at approximately 1250 ℃ based on the proposed strategy, i.e., a ZrSiO4–SiO2 dual-phase composite with bicontinuous interpenetrating and hierarchical microstructures, a ZrSiO4–ZrO2 dual-phase composite with a microstructure of ZrO2 submicron- and nano-particles embedded in a micron ZrSiO4 matrix, and ZrSiO4 ceramics with a small amount of residual ZrO2 nanoparticles. The results showed that the phase compositions, microstructure configurations, mechanical properties, and wear resistance of the materials can be flexibly regulated by the proposed strategy. Hence, ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites with different properties can be easily fabricated based on different application scenarios. These findings would offer useful guidance for researchers to flexibly fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites at low temperatures and tailor their microstructures and properties through doping and tuning the solid-state reaction.


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Low-temperature and flexible strategy to in-situ fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via doping and tuning solid-state reaction

Show Author's information Bohan Wanga, Le Fua( ), Junjie Songb,c( ), Wenjun Yua, Ying Denga, Guofu Xua, Jiwu Huanga, Wei Xiad
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Shandong Laboratory of Yantai Advanced Materials and Green Manufacturing, Yantai 264006, China
Applied Materials Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 21, Sweden

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Synthetic zircon (ZrSiO4) ceramics are typically fabricated at elevated temperatures (over 1500 ℃), which would lead to high manufacturing cost. Meanwhile, reports about preparing ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via controlling the solid-state reaction between zirconia (ZrO2) and silica (SiO2) are limited. In this work, we proposed a low-temperature strategy to flexibly design and fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via doping and tuning the solid-state reaction. Two ceramic composites and ZrSiO4 ceramics were in-situ prepared by reactive fast hot pressing (FHP) at approximately 1250 ℃ based on the proposed strategy, i.e., a ZrSiO4–SiO2 dual-phase composite with bicontinuous interpenetrating and hierarchical microstructures, a ZrSiO4–ZrO2 dual-phase composite with a microstructure of ZrO2 submicron- and nano-particles embedded in a micron ZrSiO4 matrix, and ZrSiO4 ceramics with a small amount of residual ZrO2 nanoparticles. The results showed that the phase compositions, microstructure configurations, mechanical properties, and wear resistance of the materials can be flexibly regulated by the proposed strategy. Hence, ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites with different properties can be easily fabricated based on different application scenarios. These findings would offer useful guidance for researchers to flexibly fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites at low temperatures and tailor their microstructures and properties through doping and tuning the solid-state reaction.

Keywords: wear resistance, mechanical properties, solid-state reaction, zircon (ZrSiO4), ceramic composite, zirconia (ZrO2)–silica (SiO2)

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Received: 03 March 2023
Revised: 05 April 2023
Accepted: 13 April 2023
Published: 05 June 2023
Issue date: June 2023

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Dr. Le Fu acknowledges the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52102084) and Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2022JJ30718). Dr. Junjie Song acknowledges the financial support of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2022428) and the Science Fund of Shandong Laboratory of Yantai Advanced Materials and Green Manufacturing (AMGM2021A08).

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