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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Critical Influence of the Processing Route on the Mechanical Properties of Zirconia Composites with Graphene Nanoplatelets.

Ángela Gallardo-López, Carmen Muñoz-Ferreiro, Cristina López-Pernía, Emilio Jiménez-Piqué, Felipe Gutiérrez-Mora, Ana Morales-Rodríguez, Rosalía Poyato

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Ángela Gallardo-LópezDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, ICMS, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4076-1539
Carmen Muñoz-FerreiroDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, ICMS, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1151-7916
Cristina López-PerníaDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, ICMS, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.
Emilio Jiménez-PiquéBarcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Avda. Eduard Maristany 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain.
Felipe Gutiérrez-MoraDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, ICMS, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3632-7163
Ana Morales-RodríguezDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, ICMS, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.
Rosalía PoyatoInstituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, ICMS, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4376-6615

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PGC-2018-101377-B-100 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Graphene-based nanostructures, used as potential reinforcement in ceramic composites, have a great tendency to agglomerate. This requires the use of homogenization techniques during the powder processing, posing the need to evaluate how these techniques affect the microstructure and the mechanical properties of the resulting composites. The influence of the processing route on the properties of 3YTZP (3 mol % yttria tetragonal zirconia polycrystals) ceramic composites with 10 vol % cost-effective GNP (graphene nanoplatelets) has been addressed. Four different powder processing routines combining ultrasonic powder agitation (UA) and planetary ball milling (PBM) in wet and dry media have been used and all the composites were densified by spark plasma sintering (SPS). The mechanical properties at room temperature in the macroscale have been assessed by Vickers indentations, four-point bending tests and the impulse-echo technique, while instrumented indentation was used to measure the hardness and Young's modulus at the nanoscale. The application of dry-PBM enhances greatly the mechanical and electrical isotropy of the composites, slightly increases the hardness and lowers the elastic modulus, independently of the application of UA. The combination of UA and dry-PBM enhances the flexure strength by 50%, which is desirable for structural applications.

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elastic modulusflexure strengthgraphene nanoplatelets (GNP)instrumented hardnessplanetary ball milling (PBM)spark plasma sintering (SPS)yttria tetragonal zirconia polycrystals (YTZP)

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PMID33383871
PMCPMC7794888

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