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Kinetics of Initial Coarsening During Sintering of Nanosized Powders

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Grain growth during sintering is a critical issue for the manufacture of nanocrystalline bulk materials from nanosized powders. The grain growth process during sintering can be viewed as consisting of two parts: initial coarsening during early and intermediate stages of sintering and latter stage grain growth during the final stage of sintering. The latter stage grain growth is the normal grain growth that has been well studied and reported in the literature. The initial coarsening, which often inevitably causes a material to lose nanoscaled grain size characteristics, however, is not well studied at all. In this investigation, the initial coarsening during sintering of nanosized powders was studied by both nonisothermal and isothermal experimental techniques using tungsten as an example material. The results show that the initial coarsening during the heat-up process of a sintering cycle is sufficient to increase the grain size beyond the nanoscale. The kinetics of initial coarsening is found to be linear rather than polynomial, as predicted by the conventional power law of grain growth. The analysis of activation energies showed that surface diffusion is the primary mechanism for interparticle mass transport during the initial coarsening. The linear kinetic behavior could be attributed to the pinning of grain boundaries by surface grooves and high concentration of defects as the result of the synthesis of nanosized powders.

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    Hongtao Wang (Research Associate), Z. Zak Fang (Professor) & Kyu Sup Hwang (Graduate Student)

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Wang, H., Zak Fang, Z. & Hwang, K.S. Kinetics of Initial Coarsening During Sintering of Nanosized Powders. Metall Mater Trans A 42, 3534–3542 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-011-0751-7

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