Flash sintering of ceramics

M Biesuz, VM Sglavo - Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2019 - Elsevier
Flash sintering is a novel densification technology for ceramics, which allows a dramatic
reduction of processing time and temperature. It represents a promising sintering route to …

Review of flash sintering: materials, mechanisms and modelling

M Yu, S Grasso, R Mckinnon… - … in Applied Ceramics, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Flash sintering (FS) is an energy efficient sintering technique involving electrical Joule
heating, which allows very rapid densification (< 60 s) of particulate materials. Since the first …

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 …

Flash sintering of ceramic materials

CEJ Dancer - Materials Research Express, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
During flash sintering, ceramic materials can sinter to high density in a matter of seconds
while subjected to electric field and elevated temperature. This process, which occurs at …

Analysis of the power density at the onset of flash sintering

R Raj - Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The large bank of data for ceramics from experiments in flash sintering reveal a surprising
characteristic: that the transition to a highly nonlinear rise in electrical conductivity—a …

A review of electromagnetic processing of materials (EPM): Heating, sintering, joining and forming

M Biesuz, T Saunders, D Ke, MJ Reece, C Hu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electricity is an efficient form of energy, and the growing interest in electricity-assisted
manufacturing is motivated by its inherent energy saving and reduced environmental impact …

Phase-pure BiFeO 3 produced by reaction flash-sintering of Bi 2 O 3 and Fe 2 O 3

E Gil-González, A Perejón… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Mixed powders of Bi2O3 and Fe2O3 are shown to yield single-phase, dense nanostructured
polycrystals of BiFeO3 in reaction flash sintering experiments, carried out by applying a field …

Current-rate flash sintering of gadolinium doped ceria: microstructure and defect generation

TP Mishra, RRI Neto, R Raj, O Guillon, M Bram - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
In current-rate flash-sintering experiments the current is injected into the specimen from the
very start and then increased at a constant rate, while the furnace is held at a constant …

The impact of flash sintering on densification and plasticity of strontium titanate: high heating rates, dislocation nucleation and plastic flow

W Rheinheimer, XL Phuah, L Porz, M Scherer… - Journal of the European …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flash sintering involves very rapid densification of ceramic powder compacts during a
thermal runaway induced by an applied voltage and current. The mechanisms of fast …

The role of point defects and defect gradients in flash sintering of perovskite oxides

W Rheinheimer, XL Phuah, H Wang, F Lemke… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the impact of point defects and their redistribution on the flash
sintering process. Strontium titanate was chosen as a model system for the group of …