About this Abstract |
Meeting |
MS&T24: Materials Science & Technology
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Symposium
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Manufacturing and Processing of Advanced Ceramic Materials
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Presentation Title |
Low Energy Sintering Processing Routes for Ceramic Materials |
Author(s) |
Claire E.J. Dancer, Rezvan Yavari, Dinesha Dabera, Gareth Jones |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Claire E.J. Dancer |
Abstract Scope |
The need for low energy processing routes has never been more pressing, as ceramic manufacturers battle rising energy costs and targets for lowering environmental impacts come ever closer. In addition, in applications where ceramics are included as part of a complex device assembly with other materials, processing temperatures must be lowered to enable device fabrication. Flash and cold sintering have emerged as next generation technologies which may meet these requirements. This talk will describe our work in this area over the past few years including work on flash sintering of solid-state battery electrolyte materials, and the optimisation of microstructure for these materials through use of alternative flash sintering approaches. These samples are contrasted with samples from the same material produced by cold sintering. Recent work on cold sintering and life cycle analysis of reprocessing ceramic waste for applications such as domestic worksurfaces will also be described and discussed. |