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Synergistic regulation of temperature resistance and thermal insulation performance of zirconia-based ceramic fibers

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ZrO2 fiber is a promising high-temperature resistant and heat-insulating fiber material. However, the decrease in mechanical properties caused by grain growth at high temperatures seriously affects its application. How to achieve the synergy of its temperature resistance and the thermal insulation performance is still the focus of the current industry. In this work, we started with doping inequivalent elements and studied the phase composition, temperature resistance, and thermal insulation properties of Y2O3-ZrO2 ceramic fibers by adjusting the Y/Zr molar ratio. The results showed that Y2O3 could enter the crystal lattice of ZrO2 and form a solid solution. With the increase in Y2O3 content, the structure of fibers changed from a tetragonal phase to a cubic phase, and the configurational entropy of the system increased. The larger configuration entropy in the sample could produce a robust steric hindrance effect, inhibiting grain growth. After heat treatment at 1300 °C, the grain size of Y2Zr2O7 (Y5Z5) fibers was only 61.8% that of Y0.1Zr0.9O1.95 (Y1Z9) fibers. The smaller grain size made the Y5Z5 fibers still have excellent flexibility and deformation recovery performance after heat treatment at 1300 °C and could still return to the original state after 85% compression or folded in half. In addition, due to the larger configurational entropy, the mean free path of phonon scattering was shortened, thereby improving the thermal insulation performance of the fiber. In short, this work achieves the synergistic effect of temperature resistance and thermal insulation properties of zirconia-based fiber materials only through simple inequivalent element doping.

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ZrO2纤维是一种颇具应用前景的耐高温隔热用晶体纤维材料，然而其在高温下晶粒长大导致力学性能下降，严重影响其应用。 如何实现其耐温性能与保温隔热性能的协同，仍是当前业界关注的焦点。在这项工作中，我们从掺杂不等价元素入手，通过调控Y/Zr 摩尔比研究了 Y2O3-ZrO2 陶瓷纤维的物相组成、耐温性和隔热性能。 结果表明Y2O3可以进入ZrO2的晶格并形成固溶体。 随着Y2O3含量的增加，纤维由四方相转变为立方相，同时，会引起体系的构型熵增加。样品中较大的构型熵可以产生较强的空间位阻效应，抑制晶粒生长。经过1300 °C热处理后，Y2Zr2O7（Y5Z5）纤维的晶粒尺寸仅为Y0.1Zr0.9O1.95（Y1Z9）纤维的61.8%。较小的晶粒尺寸使得Y5Z5纤维在1300 °C热处理后仍具有优异的柔韧性和变形恢复性能，在发生85%压缩变形或对折后仍能恢复到原始状态。此外，较大的构型熵导致声子散射的平均自由程缩短，从而提高了纤维的隔热性能。总之，该工作仅通过简单的不等价元素掺杂实现了氧化锆基纤维材料耐温和隔热性能的有效协同。

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52202090, 52032003, and 52102093), Shandong University Young Scholars Program (No. 2016WLJH27), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2082019014), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2021M690817) and Heilongjiang Provincial Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. LBH-Z21050 and LBH-Z20144).

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    Yong-Shuai Xie, Yuan Cheng & Xing-Hong Zhang

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Xie, YS., Peng, Y., Deng, ZZ. et al. Synergistic regulation of temperature resistance and thermal insulation performance of zirconia-based ceramic fibers. Rare Met. 42, 4189–4200 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-023-02336-7

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