Microcompression of brittle and anisotropic crystals: recent advances and current challenges in studying plasticity in hard materials

S Korte-Kerzel - Mrs Communications, 2017 - cambridge.org
Recent years have seen an increased application of small-scale uniaxial testing—
microcompression—to the study of plasticity in macroscopically brittle materials. By …

Nanomechanical properties of zirconia-yttria and alumina zirconia-yttria biomedical ceramics, subjected to low temperature aging

MC Aragón-Duarte, A Nevarez-Rascón… - Ceramics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Samples of ZTA composites {80 wt% Al 2 O 3+ 20 wt% TZ-3Y}, ATZ composites {20 wt% Al 2
O 3+ 80 wt% TZ-3Y}, tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia (3Y-TZP), and cubic stabilized …

Selective laser melting enabled additive manufacturing of Ti–22Al–25Nb intermetallic: excellent combination of strength and ductility, and unique microstructural …

YH Zhou, WP Li, DW Wang, L Zhang, K Ohara, J Shen… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
To realize near net-shaping of hard-to-process intermetallics is an often challenging but
critical issue to their wider industrial applications. In this work, we report that an intermetallic …

High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression

J Cho, Q Li, H Wang, Z Fan, J Li, S Xue… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Flash sintering has attracted significant attention as its remarkably rapid densification
process at low sintering furnace temperature leads to the retention of fine grains and …

Graph similarity drives zeolite diffusionless transformations and intergrowth

D Schwalbe-Koda, Z Jensen, E Olivetti… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Predicting and directing polymorphic transformations is a critical challenge in zeolite
synthesis,–. Interzeolite transformations enable selective crystallization,,–, but are often too …

Transparent high-strength nanosized yttria stabilized zirconia obtained by pressure-less sintering

O Akhlaghi, E Camposilvan, Z Goharibajestani… - Journal of the European …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work describes the development of transparent high-strength Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia
(YSZ) ceramics with ultra-fine grain size utilizing conventional pressure-less densification …

Realizing reversible phase transformation of shape memory ceramics constrained in aluminum

W Zheng, Y Shi, L Zhao, S Jia, L Li, CL Gan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Small-scale shape memory ceramics exhibit superior shape memory or superelasticity
properties, while their integration into a matrix material and the subsequent attainment of …

Van der Waals semiconductor InSe plastifies by martensitic transformation

Y Sun, Y Ma, JY Zhang, TR Wei, X Shi, D Rodney… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Inorganic semiconductor materials are crucial for modern technologies, but their brittleness
and limited processability hinder the development of flexible, wearable, and miniaturized …

Temperature-dependent fracture behaviour of superstructure Hf6Ta2O17 from ambient temperature to 1600° C

Q Wu, K Cao, Y Sun, C Li, L Yang, YC Zhou - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract H f 6 T a 2 O 17 has shown great promise as a high-performance thermal barrier
coating (TBC) for aeroengines because of its low thermal conductivity and strong resistance …

Superelasticity in micro-scale shape memory ceramic particles

Z Du, XM Zeng, Q Liu, CA Schuh, CL Gan - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Shape memory ceramics that exhibit repeatable superelastic deformation are of
considerable significance for possible energy damping and micro-actuation applications …