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Fabrication of Nanocomposite Ceramics by Crystallization of Rapidly Solidified Eutectic Melts
Author(s) -
Sakamoto Naonori,
Araki Shunji,
Yoshimura Masahiro
Publication year - 2009
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.1551-2916.2008.02741.x
Subject(s) - materials science , eutectic system , amorphous solid , crystallization , nanocomposite , annealing (glass) , composite material , ceramic , metallurgy , microstructure , chemical engineering , crystallography , chemistry , engineering
Eutectic melt solidification is shown to avoid cracking during solidification by quenching an amorphous phase. Subsequent annealing results in micro/nanostructure ceramics. This strategy has been applied to HfO 2 –Al 2 O 3 –GdAlO 3 and Y 2 O 3 –CaO–Al 2 O 3 ternary systems that have deep eutectics. In most cases, ceramic materials cracks when they are solidified from melt due to the thermal stress accumulated on the grain boundaries, the large specific volume difference between the melt and the crystalline solid, etc. The main reason why this strategy works is that a eutectic composition yields an amorphous phase from the melts by rapid cooling and the amorphous phase enables to design crystallization without cracking by postannealing. Appropriate postannealing for the quenched amorphous enables to control the crystallization behavior from the amorphous phase, which yields nanostructured composites without cracking. For the HfO 2 –Al 2 O 3 –GdAlO 3 case, the melt solidification and postannealing yields a nanocomposite with high transparency due to reduced scattering of 5–10 nm crystallites. For the Y 2 O 3 –CaO–Al 2 O 3 case, a plate‐shaped bulk composite is obtained without cracking by molding the melt and postannealing.

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