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Mechanical properties and low temperature degradation (LTD) of cation-stabilized zirconia

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The investigation to improve the mechanical properties and aging resistance of ZrO2 had been carried out through powder metallurgy methods. Doping 1, 3, 4, 5 mol% CeO2, HfO2, TiO2, Y2O3 with ZrO2 powder (tetragonal zirconia polycrystal, TZP), all simples were sintered at 1500 ℃-2 h to test the relative density. All sintered specimens presented nearly full densification. 5Ti-TZP promoted a significant increase in grain size. The fracture toughness of 5Ti-TZP was higher than other counterparts, which was 7.5 MPa·m1/2. HfO2 enhanced the bending strength, which was 1027 MPa. Ce-TZP presented average values of Vickers hardness and fracture toughness of 1141 kg/mm2, 4.5 MPa·m1/2, respectively. Hf-TZP and Ti-TZP presented 80% of monoclinic ZrO2 after a 20-h accelerated aging process while 5Ce-TZP withheld 80% of tetragonal ZrO2. 5Ce-TZP had the same resistance to hydrothermal aging as 3Y-TZP, which was 20% monoclinic phase after aging, but its mechanical properties are better.

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This work was supported by Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2212042), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U2141205, 52271019), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (FRF-BD-22-03). Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (E2022402004).

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    Haiqing Yin, Xue Jiang & Xuanhui Qu

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    Liu Zhang, Haiqing Yin, Ruijie Zhang, Xue Jiang, Cong Zhang, Yongwei Wang & Xuanhui Qu

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    Haiqing Yin, Ruijie Zhang, Xue Jiang & Xuanhui Qu

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Zhang, L., Yin, H., Zhang, R. et al. Mechanical properties and low temperature degradation (LTD) of cation-stabilized zirconia. Journal of Materials Research 38, 3383–3394 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-023-01064-z

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