Biomimetic apatite-based composite materials obtained by spark plasma sintering (SPS): physicochemical and mechanical characterizations

Biomimetic apatite sintered at very low temperature by spark plasma sintering: physico-chemistry and microstructure aspects.

Nanocrystalline apatites analogous to bone mineral are very promising materials for the preparation of highly bioactive ceramics due to their unique intrinsic physico-chemical characteristics. Their surface reactivity is indeed linked to the presence of a metastable hydrated layer on the surface of the nanocrystals. Yet the sintering of such apatites by conventional techniques, at high temperat...

Effect of Nano-TiN on Mechanical Behavior of Si3N4 Based Nanocomposites by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS)

Spark Plasma Synthesis (SPS) Device for Sintering of Nanomaterials

It is known that work pieces with nanocrystalline structure condition have much higher performance than those with an ordinary structure. There are known number of techniques for manufacturing of nanocrystalline materials in powder condition however a question of manufacturing bulk pieces in the same nanocrystalline state mentioned is that compaction and synthesizing of nanocrystalline powders ...

Spark-plasma-sintering (SPS) of nanostructured titanium carbonitride powders

Spark-Plasma-Sintering (SPS) compaction experiments of nanostructured titanium carbonitride powders have been performed at 1600°C and 1800°C (sintering time = 1 min). The as-received nanostructured samples have been synthesized by rapid condensation from the gas-phase (high frequency plasma). The sintering results were compared with data obtained by various conventional sintering techniques suc...

Fabrication of Nanostructured Cu matrix Nanocomposites by High Energy Mechanical Milling and Spark Plasma Sintering

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is a sintering process that is capable of sintering hard worked powders in short times. This technique was used to fabricate bulk Cu and Cu-SiC nanocomposites. Pure Cu and mixed powders of Cu including 4 vol% of SiC nanoparticles were mechanically alloyed for 25 h and sintered at 750˚C under vacuum condition by SPS method. Microstructures of the materials were chara...