Cold sintering: Current status and prospects

JP Maria, X Kang, RD Floyd, EC Dickey… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - cambridge.org
This manuscript describes, defines, and discusses the process of cold sintering, which can
consolidate a broad set of inorganic powders between room temperature and 300° C using …

What's new in ceramics sintering? A short report on the latest trends and future prospects

M Biesuz, S Grasso, VM Sglavo - Current Opinion in Solid State and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite sintering has a history even longer than human civilization (its discovery dates back
at least to 25,000 years ago), in the past decade, new exciting challenges have emerged in …

Demonstration of the cold sintering process study for the densification and grain growth of ZnO ceramics

S Funahashi, J Guo, H Guo, KE Wang… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With the cold sintering process (CSP), it was found that adding acetic acid to an aqueous
solution dramatically changed both the densities and the grain microstructures of the ZnO …

Mechanisms of Copper-Based Catalyst Deactivation during CO2 Reduction to Methanol

A Prašnikar, A Pavlišič… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Despite the fact that the methanol synthesis process includes industrially some of the most
important catalytic chemical reactions, it is still not clear how different gaseous species …

Mechanistic and multiscale aspects of thermo-catalytic CO 2 conversion to C 1 products

MI Alam, R Cheula, G Moroni, L Nardi… - Catalysis Science & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The increasing environmental concerns due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions have called
for an alternate sustainable source to fulfill rising chemical and energy demands and reduce …

Unveiling the mechanisms of cold sintering of ZnO at 250 C by varying applied stress and characterizing grain boundaries by Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy

J Gonzalez-Julian, K Neuhaus, M Bernemann… - Acta materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The sintering behavior of nanocrystalline ZnO was investigated at only 250° C. Densification
was achieved by the combined effect of uniaxial pressure and the addition of water both in a …

Doubling the life of Cu/ZnO methanol synthesis catalysts via use of Si as a structural promoter to inhibit sintering

N Barrow, J Bradley, B Corrie, Y Cui, TD Tran… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts used to synthesize methanol undergo extensive deactivation during
use, mainly due to sintering. Here, we report on formulations wherein deactivation has been …

Application of electric current‐assisted sintering techniques for the processing of advanced materials

M Bram, AM Laptev, TP Mishra, K Nur… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Highly efficient energy conversion and storage technologies such as high‐temperature solid
oxide fuel and electrolysis cells, all‐solid‐state batteries, gas separation membranes, and …

Flash sintering using controlled current ramp

H Charalambous, SK Jha, KH Christian, RT Lay… - Journal of the European …, 2018 - Elsevier
In conventional flash sintering, the current rises nonlinearly to a set current limit,
accompanied by a spike in the power density. This sudden power spike may cause hot spot …

Water-assisted flash sintering: Flashing ZnO at room temperature to achieve~ 98% density in seconds

J Nie, Y Zhang, JM Chan, R Huang, J Luo - Scripta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Water can trigger flash sintering of ZnO powder pellets at room temperature to achieve~
98% of the theoretical density in 30 s without any external furnace heating. The specimen …