[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] Homogeneous Al2O3-Zr0.91Y0.09O1.955 (65-35 mol%) nanopowders have been prepared in a wide temperature range (from 1073 to 1573 K) by thermal decomposition of amorphous precursors, made previously by freeze-drying of ...

[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 ...

[EN] Aim of the present study is to sinter zirconia nanocomposite powders doped with ceria and toughened with alumina (10Ce-TZP/Al2O3) by non-conventional means, i.e. microwave sintering technology. The sintering effects ...

[EN] Microwave sintering has emerged in recent years as a promising technology for faster, cheaper and eco-friendlier processing of a wide variety of materials, which are regarded as significant advantages against ...

[EN] A simple, soft, and fast microwave-assisted hydrothermal method was used for the preparation of nanocrystalline cobalt ferrite powders from commercially-available Fe(NO3)(3)center dot 9H(2)O, Co(NO3)(2)center dot ...