Journal of Advanced Ceramics (Jul 2022)

A versatile defect engineering strategy for room-temperature flash sintering

  • Angxuan Wu,
  • Ziyang Yan,
  • Xilin Wang,
  • Zhiyang Yu,
  • Rongxia Huang,
  • Nianping Yan,
  • Zhidong Jia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0591-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 7
pp. 1172 – 1178

Abstract

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Abstract In this study, we reported that flash sintering (FS) could be efficiently triggered at room temperature (25 °C) by manipulating the oxygen concentration within ZnO powders via a versatile defect engineering strategy, fully demonstrating a promising method for the repaid prototyping of ceramics. With a low concentration of oxygen defects, FS was only activated at a high onset electric field of ∼2.7 kV/cm, while arcs appearing on the surfaces of samples. Strikingly, the onset electric field was decreased to < 0.51 kV/cm for the activation of FS initiated, which was associated with increased oxygen concentrations coupled with increased electrical conductivity. Thereby, a general room-temperature FS strategy by introducing intrinsic structural defect is suggested for a broad range of ceramics that are prone to form high concentration of point defects.

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