Consolidation of nanocrystalline NbAl powders by plasma activated sintering

Field‐Assisted Sintering of Nanocrystalline Titanium Nitride

“…Castro and Ying 2 reported that this phase crystallizes near and above 1200°C. Prior field-assisted work indicated an enhanced phase formation during the sintering of nanopowders, 11 which may explain the formation of Ti 3 O 5 at lower temperatures here. The narrowing of the Ti 3 O 5 XRD peaks further showed a substantial increase in crystallite size of this phase, which was confirmed by SEM analysis of the microstructure.…”

Electric‐Field Effects on Sintering and Reaction to Form Aluminum Titanate from Binary Alumina–Titania Sol–Gel Powders

“…Simultaneous rapid compound synthesis and powder densification have been achieved in an elemental Nb-Al mixture to form Nb 3 Al. 10 Fully crystalline SiAlON has been obtained during consolidation of initial Al 2 O 3 , AlN, and Si 3 N 4 powders. 11 Previous work to form Al 2 TiO 5 has involved synthesis of monocomponent Al 2 O 3 and TiO 2 powders by a polymeric sol-gel route and densification by conventional sintering.…”

Pulse Current Auxiliary Sintering

“…RS equipments used by researchers in different countries were purchased directly from commercial corporations, or developed by scientific institutions or researchers themselves for facilitate their own studies. Apart from the RS equipments developed by the two Japanese companies (Spark Plasma Sintering apparatus, well known as SPS), user-built machines accounts for about 40% among all the current RS machines, as introduced in Fig.5, where other companies refer to Sodick Co. Ltd [5]., Superior Graphite Co. Ltd.(USA) [6], Materials Modification Inc.(USA) [7], Eltek Co.(Korea) [8]etc.. All the user-built machines were named diversely to distinguish them from the commercial equipments. Fig.…”