Chao Shen, a graduate student on the team, said once the ceramic specimens are cooled, the dislocations improve the plasticity of ceramics at room temperature. “This method is more widely applicable ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Sintering is a critical processing technology in the production of ceramic materials that uses high heat to compact ceramic powders into a solid form. Sintering of pure oxide ceramics requires ...

Sintering, whereby the ceramic is heated to a high temperature to bond the particles of the powdered ceramic together, is probably the most commonly cited method.

Ordinarily, when ceramic items are manufactured, the raw material has to be fired in a kiln at temperatures exceeding 1,000 ºC (1,832 ºF). Needless to say, it's a very energy-intensive process ...

“Novel hybrid cold sintering/spark plasma sintering technologies, combined with a post-annealing process, can effectively densify ZnO-based varistor ceramics at a low temperature.

In this research, our aim was to lower the sintering temperature of barium titanate using features of microwave sintering, namely selective heating and rapid heating, by promoting liquid phase ...

Multiphase composition design and entropy engineering control are promising strategies to improve the properties of ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs). In this study, spark plasma sintering ...