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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Xinghang Zhang, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Haiyan Wang, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jin Li, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jaehun Cho, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Xin Li Phuah, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Han Wang, Richland, WA (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
Methods of determining and controlling the deformability of ceramic materials, as a nonlimiting example, YSZ, particularly through the application of a flash sintering process, and to ceramic materials produced by such methods. Such a method includes providing a nanocrystalline powder of a ceramic material, making a compact of the powder, and subjecting the compact to flash sintering by applying an electric field and thermal energy to the compact.