For decades, enormous investigation effort has been devoted to the fabrication of new
ceramic matrix composites with enhanced mechanical properties. One of the most explored …

Ceramics suffer the curse of extreme brittleness and demand new design philosophies and
novel concepts of manufacturing to overcome such intrinsic drawbacks, in order to take …

Yttria tetragonal zirconia ceramic composites with 1, 2.5, 5 and 10 vol% nominal contents of
graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) were fabricated and characterized. First, the GNP …

Multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)-reinforced Al 2 O 3-matrix nanocomposites were
obtained by wet ball milling composite powders and spark plasma sintering. The mechanical …

Double-walled carbon nanotube/yttria-stabilized zirconia composite powders with carbon
contents up to 6.3 wt% are prepared by soft covalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes …

The tribological behavior of graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) reinforced 3 mol% yttria
tetragonal zirconia polycrystals (3YTZP) composites with different GNP content (2.5, 5 and …

The effect of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) at zirconia grain boundaries on the
stability of a tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline matrix has been explored in as–sintered …

The effect of the relative content of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) on the
compaction, phase composition, microstructure, and mechanical properties of composites …

Abstract Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-reinforced Al 2 O 3-matrix nanocomposites were
fabricated by a serious of physical dispersion methods and subsequent spark plasma …

The chemical vapor deposition of carbon is performed onto a commercial yttria-stabilized
zirconia (3YSZ) powder bed. This produces few-layered-graphene (FLG) film uniformly …