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Fused silica ceramics were fabricated by gelcasting, by use of a low-toxicity N′N-dimethylacrylamide gel system, and had excellent properties compared with those obtained by use of the low-toxicity 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate and toxic acrylamide systems. The effect of sintering temperature on the microstructure, mechanical and dielectric properties, and thermal shock resistance of the fused silica ceramics was investigated. The results showed that sintering temperature has a critical effect. Use of an appropriate sintering temperature will promote densification and improve the strength, thermal shock resistance, and dielectric properties of fused silica ceramics. However, excessively high sintering temperature will greatly facilitate crystallization of amorphous silica and result in more cristobalite in the sample, which will cause deterioration of these properties. Fused silica ceramics sintered at 1275°C have the maximum flexural strength, as high as 81.32 MPa, but, simultaneously, a high coefficient of linear expansion (2.56 × 10−6/K at 800°C) and dramatically reduced residual flexural strength after thermal shock (600°C). Fused silica ceramics sintered at 1250°C have excellent properties, relatively high and similar flexural strength before (67.43 MPa) and after thermal shock (65.45 MPa), a dielectric constant of 3.34, and the lowest dielectric loss of 1.20 × 10−3 (at 1 MHz).
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This work was supported by a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT), IRT1146.
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Wan, W., Huang, Ce., Yang, J. et al. Effect of Sintering Temperature on the Properties of Fused Silica Ceramics Prepared by Gelcasting. J. Electron. Mater. 43, 2566–2572 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-014-3112-7
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