This work aims to establish a colloidal route to obtain laminates of alumina zirconia combining layers with and without graphene. Green tapes of alumina, alumina with 5 vol.% of 3Y-TZP and alumina with 5 vol.% of 3Y-TZP ...

[EN] Composite materials formed by a LAS matrix reinforced with second phases are promising materials in many applications where better mechanical properties than those corresponding to conventional low thermal expansion ...

[EN] Suspension plasma spraying (SPS) deposition represents an innovative technique to produce coatings that exhib- it improved properties. However, the key to obtain coatings with superior functional properties relies on ...

TiCxN1-x-15 wt.%Co cermets were obtained by a mechanically induced self-sustaining reaction (MSR) and sintered by spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique at different temperatures (1200-1400 degrees C) for 1 min in vacuum ...

[ES] La sinterización de materiales cerámicos mediante radiación de microondas es un campo emergente en la ciencia y tecnología de materiales con un enorme potencial para obtener nuevos materiales y nuevas microestructuras. ...

[EN] Materials with a very low or tailored thermal expansion have many applications ranging from cookware to the aerospace industry. Among others, lithium aluminosilicates (LAS) are the most studied family with low and ...

Multilayer materials have demonstrated to provide an efficient mechanism for toughening by deflection of a propagating crack by weak interlayers. Therefore, the aim of this work is to study the colloidal processing of 8 ...

[PT] O desenvolvimento de novos materiais cerâmicos para aplicá-los em recobrimentos protetores frente à temperatura, também conhecidos como barreiras térmicas (Thermal Barrier Coatings o TBC), é de grande interesse para ...

[EN] Advanced ceramic coatings have been largely used in several industrial fields such as aerospace, automotive, power generation, medical or petrochemical, in order to protect or functionalise the surface of different ...

[EN] Microwave material sintering provides many advantages over conventional methods. This is a non-conventional technique, where materials absorb and convert electromagnetic energy into heat. The heating process is very ...