A new techno-economic analysis shows that the energy intensive ceramic industry would gain both financial and environmental benefits if it moved to free the cold sintering process from languishing ...

"Because the sintering process does not require exposing the entire structure to the heat of the furnace, the new technique holds promise for allowing us to apply ultra-high-temperature ceramic ...

Ceramics have been used by humans for at least 26,000 years, but conventional ceramic sintering – part of the firing process which makes the materials much more durable – can take hours.

The discovery of a process, called cold sintering, that allows the ceramic particles to bond at a lower temperature means that these materials can be improved in a variety of ways — from augmenting ...

The entire process, known as sintering, happens so rapidly that the researchers consider it a single-step process. This process can be used in two different ways to engineer the ceramic.

Nature-inspired process takes the heat off of ceramics production By Ben Coxworth March 01, 2017 A ceramic sample created using the cold sintering process ETH Zurich / Peter Rüegg View 1 Images ...

But a sintering process developed by a team of researchers at Penn State, called the cold sintering process (CSP), can sinter ceramics at much lower temperatures, less than 572 degrees F, saving ...

To conduct the process, the researchers sandwich a pressed green pellet of ceramic precursor powders between two Joule-heating carbon strips that rapidly heat the pellet through radiation and ...

Recent studies have shown that applying an electric field, or “flash,” significantly accelerates the sintering process that forms YSZ and other ceramics, and at much lower furnace temperatures than ...

Understanding the mechanisms behind the FAST process could speed commercial development of bulk ceramic sintering processing for a range of applications. The same mechanisms also apply to other ...