Synthesis and sintering of ceramic nanocomposites with high mixed conductivity

Abstract

Metastable solid solutions of complex oxides with fluorite and perovskite structures are obtained by mechanosynthesis. Dense ceramics on the base of these metastable phases was obtained by thermal sintering of nanopowders due to kinetic stabilization. Different degrees of a chemical interaction (interdiffusion) are observed during sintering of "perovskite+fluorite" and "perovskite+perovskite" composites. It is shown, that optimization of the composition, mixing conditions of individual phases and their sintering, preparation of ceramic composites with mixed conductivity for use in catalytic membrane reactors is possible. Unusual behavior of complex perovskites and fluorites is discovered during sintering, enabling determination of an optimum sintering temperature and time for which a qualitative explanation is given. It is established that rearrangement of fine crystalline particles as a whole plays a key role in shrinkage.

Keywords

• mechanosynthesis
• complex oxides
• perovskites
• fluorites
• composites
• ceramics
• sintering
• interdiffusion
• mixed conductivity