While the method of flash sintering can reduce the temperatures and time required to process ceramics in comparison with traditional methods, the technique often ...

Densifying ceramics using flash sintering reduces energy use and may be used to improve the viability of manufacturing complex ceramic structures such as those required for solid state batteries by ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture. Items such as drinking mugs, ...

Materials scientists and industry professionals gathered for a symposium to honor the career of flash-sintering pioneer and mechanical engineering professor Rishi Raj on July 19, 2019. It was an ...

Oxygen-deficient zirconia with black color was rapidly fabricated by flash sintering treatment in a short time of 90 s for the first time. Oxygen-deficient zirconia exhibited the excellent optical ...

Since Marco Cologna’s seminal paper in 2010, flash sintering has expanded, drawing interest from many laboratories around the world. The phenomena has been shown to be surprisingly general and ...

Engineers at Purdue University are using flash sintering to improve the plasticity of ceramics, an advance that could allow ceramics to sustain heavy loads and high temperatures without experiencing ...

An ultrafast method can drastically reduce the time needed to synthesize ceramics, cutting prep time from several hours to less than a minute (Science 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz7681). The ...

Flash sintering is a ceramic processing technique which uses electric current to intensively heat the ceramic sample internally rather than using only external furnace heating. The process can lower ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture. Items such as drinking mugs, ...