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High temperature plastic flow and grain boundary chemistry in oxide ceramics

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High temperature plastic flow or grain boundary failure in oxide ceramics such as Al2O3 and tetragonal ZrO2 polycrystal (TZP) is sensitive to small levels of doping by various cations. For example, high temperature creep deformation in fine-grained, polycrystalline Al2O3 is highly suppressed by 0.1 mol% lanthanoid oxide or ZrO2-doping. An elongation to failure in superplastic TZP is improved by 0.2–3 mol% GeO2-doping. A high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) observation and an energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis revealed that the dopant cations tend to segregate along the grain boundaries in Al2O3 and TZP. The dopant effect is attributed to change in the grain boundary diffusivity due to the grain boundary segregation of the dopant cations. A molecular orbital calculation suggests that ionicity is one of the most important parameters to determine the high temperature flow stress, and probably, the grain boundary diffusivity in the oxide ceramics.

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  1. National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Tsukuba, Sengen, Ibaraki, 305-0047, Japan

    H. Yoshida

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    A. Kuwabara

  3. Department of Advanced Materials Science, School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    T. Yamamoto

  4. Institution of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Y. Ikuhara

  5. National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, 1-29-1 Gakuennishimachi, Kodaira, 187-8587, Japan

    T. Sakuma

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Yoshida, H., Kuwabara, A., Yamamoto, T. et al. High temperature plastic flow and grain boundary chemistry in oxide ceramics. J Mater Sci 40, 3129–3135 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-005-2674-4

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