[EN] Zirconia has become a widely utilized structural ceramic material with important applications in dentistry due to its superb mechanical properties, biocompatibility, aesthetic characteristics and durability. Zirconia ...

β-eucryptite ceramics with low negative or near-zero coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) with excellent mechanical properties, such as Young’s modulus  100 GPa, have attracted attention for many important industrial ...

[EN] Ceramics for dental applications have become increasingly important in the last decades. Particularly, the introduction of yttria-stabilized zirconia tetragonal polycrystalline (Y-TZP) materials as an alternative ...

Commercially, 3mol% Y2O3-stabilized tetragonal zirconia (7090nm) compacts were fabricated using a conventional and a nonconventional sintering technique; microwave heating in a resonant mono-mode cavity at 2.45GHz, at ...

[EN] Microwave sintering has emerged in recent years as a new, fast, cheap and green technology for sintering a variety of materials. The main advantages of microwave heating can be summarized as follow: reduced processing ...