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ArticleNature communications2026

Breaking the grain size limit of glass-crystallized transparent nanoceramics via multi-phase interface locking.

Wenlong Xu, Yongchang Guo, Haohan Fan, Yuanfeng Liu, Zhibiao Ma, Linghan Bai, Ruyu Fan, Tiannan Zhang, Guoguo Zhang, Yuhang Chen and 6 more

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Wenlong XuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-4850-0768
Yongchang GuoUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Haohan FanState Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, Leibniz International Joint Research Center of Materials Sciences of Anhui Province, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
Yuanfeng LiuState Key Lab of New Ceramic Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Zhibiao MaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Linghan BaiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Ruyu FanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Tiannan ZhangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Guoguo ZhangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Yuhang ChenSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Shijiao ZhangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Chuanbao LiuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. cbliu@ustb.edu.cn.
Binghui GeState Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, Leibniz International Joint Research Center of Materials Sciences of Anhui Province, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China. bhge@ahu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6470-6278
Jingbo SunState Key Lab of New Ceramic Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. jingbosun@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Yanhao DongState Key Lab of New Ceramic Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. dongyanhao@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1224-1015
Jianqiang LiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. jianqiangli@ustb.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9591-458X

Funding

Beijing Nova Program No. 20240484583National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) No. 52472062
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Abstract

Nanoceramics from sintering routes are challenging to process due to difficulties in deagglomerating nanopowders, suppressing grain growth, and eliminating macroscopic defects. Glass crystallization offers new possibilities by first densifying materials to optical transparency in amorphous form and then fully crystallizing into ceramic form. However, refining the grain size within the nanocrystalline regime is again challenging, due to rapid grain growth under large crystallization driving force and nucleation-controlled kinetics. Here we tackle the problem by decomposing the homogeneous glass precursors into ternary phase composite ceramics, thus coupling the coarsening kinetics to slow cation diffusion required for phase partitioning and hetero-phase boundary motion required for grain growth. The design allows precise adjustment of the evolving microstructure and yields a fine grain size down to ~16 nm in fully crystallized ceramics. We demonstrate that the obtained nanoceramics can deliver high optical transparency, despite the different refractive indices of the cubic La(Al

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