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Journal article

Electric field effect on texture formation of mullite in spark plasma sintered SiC with Al2O3–SiO2 additive

  • 1. Secure Materials Center, Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503 (Japan)
  • 2. Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Ibaraki 305-8573 (Japan)
  • 3. Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550 (Japan)

Description

Nanocrystalline SiC ceramics were sintered by spark plasma sintering, with alumina and quartz powders as additives. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy analyses revealed that mullite phase with the preferred orientation of the c-axis perpendicular to the compressive axis was formed in SiC ceramics sintered at 1600 and 1700 °C, while mullite phase with the preferred orientation of the c-axis parallel to the current direction was formed in SiC ceramics sintered at 1800 and 1900 °C

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2014.12.011

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.scriptamat.2014.12.011;
PII
S1359-6462(14)00532-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Scripta Materialia
Journal Volume
100
Journal Page Range
p. 51-54
ISSN
1359-6462
CODEN
SCMAF7

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