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Thermodynamics of the tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation in fine and nanocrystalline yttria-stabilized zirconia powders

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The current study uses high-temperature differential scanning calorimetry to document the shift in phase-transformation temperature with particle size throughout a series of alloys in the zirconia–yttria system (0–1.5 mol% yttria). The tetragonal-to-monoclinic (T→M) phase-transformation temperature is seen to vary inversely with particle size. It is shown that a simple thermodynamic approach first proposed by Garvie predicts this inverse linear relationship. Subsequent determination of the key thermodynamic parameters therein (e.g., the surface and volume free energy, enthalpy, and entropy changes involved in the phase transformation) allows a complete predictive equation for the T→M phase transformation in the yttria–zirconia system to be developed as a function of particle size and yttria dopant level. The yttria–zirconia phase diagram is then redrawn with grain size as a third variable. It should be stressed that the current analysis is valid for particulate systems only; a parallel paper tackles the problem for fine-grained yttria–zirconia solids, where the approach is similar, but additional strain energy terms come into play.

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  1. Arun Suresh

    Present address: Analog Devices, Inc., 804 Woburn Street, Wilmington, MA, 01887, USA

  2. Merrilea J. Mayo

    Present address: University of Maryland, Department of Materials Engineering, Bldg. 090, College Park, MD, 20742-2115, USA

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    Arun Suresh & Merrilea J. Mayo

  2. High Temperature Materials Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA

    Wallace D. Porter

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Suresh, A., Mayo, M.J. & Porter, W.D. Thermodynamics of the tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation in fine and nanocrystalline yttria-stabilized zirconia powders. Journal of Materials Research 18, 2912–2921 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0406

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