Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Fine-grained ZrSiO4/3Y-TZP Ceramic Hot-pressed from 3Y-TZP Powders Coated with SiO2 Layer

WANG Shi-Wei; RONG Tian-Jun; HUANG Xiao-Xian; GUO Jing-Kun   

  1. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 200050; China)
  • Received:2001-03-14 Revised:2001-05-07 Published:2002-03-20 Online:2002-03-20

Abstract: 3Y-TZP powder coated with SiO2 layer, prepared by the wet chemical method, was hot-pressed to fine-grained ZrSiO4/3Y-TZP composite. The phases and
microstructure of the sintering bodies were characterized by X-ray diffraction and TEM. Below 1300℃, the coated powder was sintered to higher density
by means of transient viscous sintering. With increasing temperature, SiO2 reacted with ZrO2 to form ZrSiO4. ZrSiO4/3Y-TZP ceramic with an average
grain size of 350nm was obtained when the coated powder was hot-pressed at 1500℃ for 1h. It was suggested that SiO2 layer made greater contributions to the
formation of the fine-grained ZrSiO4/3Y-TZP composite.

Key words: coated powder, hot pressing, ZrSiO4/3Y-TZP

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