The mechanical properties of nanocrystalline materials are reviewed, with emphasis on their
constitutive response and on the fundamental physical mechanisms. In a brief introduction …

This review article aims to provide an updated and comprehensive description of the
development of the Electric Current Activated/assisted Sintering technique (ECAS) for the …

The development of high-density ceramic materials with fine-grained microstructures has
been studied to considerably improve their properties for high-performance applications …

Observation of the unconventional properties and material behaviour expected in the
nanometre grain size range necessitates the fabrication of fully dense bulk nanostructured …

Spark plasma and flash sintering process characteristics together with their corresponding
sintering and densification mechanisms and field effects were briefly reviewed. The …

The recognition that bulk nanoceramic materials, having grain sizes typically 100 nm or
finer, possess appealing mechanical, physical and tribological properties has generated …

Nanostructures are considered as chemical systems of high potential owing to their unusual
properties at the interface of those of molecular species and bulk metals. Consequently, they …

The sintering of nanosize powders of fully stabilized zirconia was investigated using the
spark plasma sintering (SPS) method. The influence of sintering temperature, heating rate …

As a relatively novel sintering technique, spark plasma sintering (SPS) has been used
extensively over the past decade to prepare a wide variety of materials, eg, ceramics …

The synthesis and functional characterization of dense bulk nanometric oxides are
reviewed, with particular emphasis on the modifications that a grain size in the low …