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Cover Image, Volume 99, Issue 4
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/jace.13884
Subject(s) - sintering , cover (algebra) , ceramic , scanning electron microscope , volume (thermodynamics) , materials science , feature (linguistics) , transmission electron microscopy , nanoparticle , mineralogy , nanotechnology , composite material , thermodynamics , chemistry , mechanical engineering , physics , engineering , philosophy , linguistics
Nanoparticles of tin dioxide going through sintering. Contact angles between particles define pore volume. This system is a great example of how thermodynamics of interfaces strongly control densification and grain growth of ceramics. Image was obtained using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (by Sanchita Dey, UC Davis). Please see Feature Article, “Sintering and Nanostability: The Thermodynamic Perspective” by Ricardo H. R. Castro and Douglas Gouvêa.