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Effect of Seeding Sr 2 KNb 5 O 15 on the Phase Formation and Microstructural Development in Reactive Sintering of Sr 2 NaNb 5 O 15 Ceramics
Author(s) -
Wei Lingling,
Yang Zupei,
Chang Yunfei,
Gu Rui
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2008.02284.x
Subject(s) - acicular , sintering , microstructure , materials science , grain growth , seeding , phase (matter) , chemical engineering , ceramic , seed crystal , metallurgy , mineralogy , crystallography , chemistry , single crystal , thermodynamics , physics , organic chemistry , engineering
The phase formation, densification behavior, and microstructure development of Sr 2 NaNb 5 O 15 (SNN) ceramics in both 10 wt% acicular Sr 2 KNb 5 O 15 (SKN) seed‐containing and unseeded systems were investigated in this work. SNN ceramics were reactively sintered from SrNb 2 O 6 and NaNbO 3 powders. The results show that the acicular SKN seeds not only accelerate SNN phase formation but also promote the densification at lower temperature. In reactive sintering, the acicular SKN seeds prepared by the molten salt synthesis method can give rise to the formation of a liquid phase and provide the structural framework for the grain growth of ceramics, leading to the formation of large anisotropic grains (>80 μm) in ceramics sintered at 1340°C. However, there are no such large anisotropic grains obtained in the SKN‐free system. Observation of the large anisotropic grain growth is explained by the liquid‐phase‐assisted growth mechanism. For comparison, the microstructure evolution in the system with 10 wt% SKN seed, which was prepared by the conventional mixed‐oxide method and without acicular morphology, was also investigated to further support the new growth mechanism.