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Mamoru Mitomo Yoh-ichiro Sato Nobuo Ayuzawa Isamu Yashima 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1991,74(4):856-858
Plasma etching of β-Si3 N4 , α-sialon/β-Si3 N4 and α-sialon ceramics were performed with hydrogen glow plasma at 600°C for 10 h. The preferential etching of β-Si3 N4 grains was observed. The etching rate of α-sialon grains and of the grain-boundary glassy phase was distinctly lower than that of β-Si3 N4 grains. The size, shape, and distribution of β-Si3 N4 grains in the α-sialon/β-Si3 N4 composite ceramics were revealed by the present method. 相似文献
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Youren Xu Chao M. Huang Waltraud M. Kriven Avigdor Zangvil 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1994,77(8):2213-2216
The microstructure of a pressureless sintered (1605°C, 90 min) O'+β' SiAlON ceramic with CeO2 doping has been investigated. It is duplex in nature, consisting of very large, slablike elongated O' grains (20–30 μm long), and a continuous matrix of small rodlike β' grains (< 1.0 μm in length). Many α-Si3 N4 inclusions (0.1–0.5 μm in size) were found in the large O' grains. CeO2 -doping and its high doping level as well as the high Al2 O3 concentration were thought to be the main reasons for accelerating the reaction between the α-Si3 N4 and the Si-Al-O-N liquid to precipitate O'–SiAlON. This caused the supergrowth of O' grains. The rapid growth of O' crystals isolated the remnant α–Si3 N4 from the reacting liquid, resulting in a delay in the α→β-Si3 N4 transformation. The large O' grains and the α-Si3 N4 inclusions have a pronounced effect on the strength degradation of O'+β' ceramics. 相似文献
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Naoto Hirosaki Yoshio Akimune Mamoru Mitomo 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1994,77(4):1093-1097
Fine β-Si3 N4 powders with or without the addition of 5 wt% of large β-Si3 N4 particles (seeds) were gas-pressure sintered at 1900°C for 4 h using Y2 O3 and Al2 O3 as sintering aids. The microstructures were examined on polished and plasmaetched surfaces. These materials had a microstructure of in situ composites with similar small matrix grains and different elongated grains. The elongated grains in the materials with seeds had a larger diameter and a smaller aspect ratio than those in the materials without seeds. A core/rim structure was observed in the elongated grains; the core was pure β-Si3 N4 and the rim was β-SiAION. These results show that the large β-Si3 N4 particles acted as seeds for abnormal grain growth and the rim was formed by precipitation from the liquid containing aluminum. 相似文献
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Elongated β'-SiAlON grains grown from several finegrained Ym/3 Si12(m+n) Alm+n On N16–r compositions with α-Si3 N4 , AlN, Al2 O3 , and Y2 O3 starting materials have been examined. These grains have large aspect ratios and are oriented along the [0001] axis. TEM structural and chemical analysis suggests that they are nucleated from various seed crystals, which can be α-Si3 N4 , β-Si3 N4 , or other β'-SiAlON. The β'-SiAlON seed and the initial precipitation on β-Si3 N4 show a higher content of Al and O, indicating that a large transient supersaturation of Al and O in the liquid is instrumental for β'-SiAlON formation, whereas subsequent growth proceeds under a much lower driving force. The misfit between phases is accommodated by interfacial dislocations ( c -type and a -type). Fully grown β'-SiAlON grains usually contain several variants independently nucleated from the same seed. In particular, the two alternative α/β phase-matching possibilities result in two [0001] growth habits separated by a twin boundary. 相似文献
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Gas-pressure sintering of α-Si3 N4 was carried out at 1850 ° to 2000°C in 980-kPa N2 . The diameters and aspect ratios of hexagonal grains in the sintered materials were measured on polished and etched surfaces. The materials have a bimodal distribution of grain diameters. The average aspect ratio in the materials from α-Si3 N4 powder was similar to that in the materials from β-Si3 N4 powder. The aspect ratio of large and elongated grains was larger than that of the average for all grains. The development of elongated grains was related to the formation of large nuclei during the α-to-β phase transformation. The fracture toughness of gaspressure-sintered materials was not related to the α content in the starting powder or the aspect ratio of the grains, but to the diameter of the large grains. Crack bridging was the main toughening mechanism in gas-pressure-sintered Si3 N4 ceramics. 相似文献
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Fabrication and Mechanical Properties of Silicon Carbide-Silicon Nitride Composites with Oxynitride Glass 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Young-Wook Kim Young-Il Lee Mamoru Mitomo Heon-Jin Choi June-Gunn Lee 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1999,82(4):1058-1060
A microstructure that consisted of uniformly distributed, elongated β-Si3 N4 grains, equiaxed β-SiC grains, and an amorphous grain-boundary phase was developed by using β-SiC and alpha-Si3 N4 powders. By hot pressing, elongated β-Si3 N4 grains were grown via alpha right arrow β phase transformation and equiaxed β-SiC grains were formed because of inhibited grain growth. The strength and fracture toughness of SiC have been improved by adding Si3 N4 particles, because of the reduced defect size and the enhanced bridging and crack deflection by the elongated β-Si3 N4 grains. Typical flexural-strength and fracture-toughness values of SiC-35-wt%-Si3 N4 composites were 1020 MPa and 5.1 MPam1/2 , respectively. 相似文献
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The densification behavior of Si3 N4 containing MgO was studied in detail. It was concluded that MgO forms a liquid phase (most likely a magnesium silicate). This liquid wets and allows atomic transfer of Si3 N4 . Evidence of a second-phase material between the Si3 N4 grains was obtained through etching studies. Transformation of α- to β-Si3 N4 during hot-pressing is not necessary for densification. 相似文献
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Martin Krämer 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1993,76(6):1627-1629
α-Si3 N4 core structures within β-Si3 N4 grains have been studied by transmission electron microscopy. The grains were dispersed in an oxynitride glass which was previously melted at 1600°C. The cores were topotactically related to the as-grown β-Si3 N4 crystallites and are related to epitactical nucleation during heat treatment as the most probable mechanism. 相似文献
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L. K. V. LOU T. E. MITCHELL A. H. HEUER 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1978,61(9-10):392-396
Impurity phases in commercial hot-pressed Si3 N4 were investigated using transmission electron microscopy. In addition to the dominant, β-Si3 N4 phase, small amounts of Si2 N2 O, SiC, and WC were found. Significantly, a continuous grain-boundary phase was observed in the ∼ 25 high-angle boundaries examined. This film is ∼ 10 Å thick between, β-Si3 N4 grains and ∼ 30 Å thick between Si2 N2 O and β-Si3 N4 grains. 相似文献
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Silicon nitride (Si3 N4 ) and SiAlONs can be self-toughened through the growth of elongated β-Si3 N4 /β-SiAlON grains in sintering. α-SiAlONs usually retain an equiaxed grain morphology and have a higher hardness but lower toughness than β-SiAlONs. The present work has demonstrated that elongated alpha-SiAlON grains can also be developed through pressureless sintering. alpha-SiAlONs with high-aspect-ratio grains in the calcium SiAlON system have exhibited significant grain debonding and pull-out effects during fracture, which offers promise for in-situ -toughened α-SiAlON ceramics. 相似文献
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Tzer-Shin Sheu 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1994,77(9):2345-2353
The in situ β-Si3 N4 /α'-SiAlON composite was studied along the Si3 N4 –Y2 O3 : 9 AlN composition line. This two phase composite was fully densified at 1780°C by hot pressing Densification curves and phase developments of the β-Si3 N4 /α'-SiAlON composite were found to vary with composition. Because of the cooperative formation of α'-Si AlON and β-Si3 N4 during its phase development, this composite had equiaxed α'-SiAlON (∼0.2 μm) and elongated β-Si3 N4 fine grains. The optimum mechanical properties of this two-phase composite were in the sample with 30–40%α', which had a flexural strength of 1100 MPa at 25°C 800 MPa at 1400°C in air, and a fracture toughness 6 Mpa·m1/2 . α'-SiAlON grains were equiaxed under a sintering condition at 1780°C or lower temperatures. Morphologies of the α°-SiAlON grains were affected by the sintering conditions. 相似文献
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Takafumi Kusunose Tohru Sekino Yong Ho Choa Koichi Niihara 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》2002,85(11):2678-2688
A chemical process for fabrication of Si3 N4 /BN nanocomposite was devised to improve the mechanical properties. Si3 N4 /BN nanocomposites containing 0 to 30 vol% hexagonal BN ( h -BN) were successfully fabricated by hot-pressing α-Si3 N4 powders, on which turbostratic BN ( t -BN) with a disordered layer structure was partly coated. The t -BN coating on α-Si3 N4 particles was prepared by reducing and heating α-Si3 N4 particles covered with a mixture of boric acid and urea. TEM observations of this nanocomposite revealed that the nanosized hexagonal BN ( h -BN) particles were homogeneously dispersed within Si3 N4 grains as well as at grain boundaries. As expected from the rules of composites, Young's modulus of both micro- and nanocomposites decreased with an increase in h -BN content, while the fracture strength of the nanocomposites prepared in this work was significantly improved, compared with the conventional microcomposites. 相似文献
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C. Greskovich 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1981,64(2):31-C-
The development of microstructure in hot-pressed Sia N4 was studiehd for a typical Si3 N4 powder with and without BeSiN2 as a densification aid. The effect of hot-pressing temperature on density, α- to β-Si3 N4 conversion and specific surface area showed that BeSiN2 appears to increase the mobility of the system by enhancing densification, α- to β-Si3 N4 transformation, and grain growth at temperatures between 1450° and 1800°. These processes appear to occur in the presence of a liquid phase. 相似文献
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Jianren Zeng Yoshinari Miyamoto Osamu Yamada 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1991,74(9):2197-2200
Fine Si3 N4 -SiC composite powders were synthesized in various SiC compositions to 46 vol% by nitriding combustion of silicon and carbon. The powders were composed of α-Si3 N4 , β-Si3 N4 , and β-SiC. The reaction analysis suggested that the SiC formation is assisted by the high reaction heat of Si nitridation. The sintered bodies consisted of uniformly dispersed grains of β-Si3 N4 , β-SiC, and a few Si2 N2 O. 相似文献
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Dong-Duk Lee Suk-Joong L. Kang Gunter Petzow Duk N. Yoon 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1990,73(3):767-769
By using α-Si3 N4 and β-Si3 N4 starting powders with similar particle size and distribution, the effect of α-β (β') phase transition on densification and microstructure is investigated during the liquid-phase sintering of 82Si3 N4 ·9Al2 O3 ·9Y2 O3 (wt%) and 80Si3 N4 ·13Al2 O3 ·5AIN·5AIN·2Y2 O3 . When α-Si3 N4 powder is used, the grains become elongated, apparently hindering the densification process. Hence, the phase transition does not enhance the densification. 相似文献
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The abnormal grain growth of β-Si3 N4 was observed in a 70% Si3 N4 –30% barium aluminum silicate (70%-Si3 N4 –30%-BAS) self-reinforced composite that was pressureless-sintered at 1930°C; Si3 N4 starting powders with a wide particle-size distribution were used. The addition of coarse Si3 N4 powder encouraged the abnormal growth of β-Si3 N4 grains, which allowed microstructural modification through control of the content and size distribution of β-Si3 N4 nuclei. The mechanical response of different microstructures was characterized in terms of flexural strength, as well as indentation fracture resistance, at room temperature. The presence of even a small amount of abnormally grown β-Si3 N4 grains improved the fracture toughness and minimized the variability in flexural strength. 相似文献
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M. Mitomo M. Tsutsumi H. Tanaka S. Uenosono F. Saito 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》1990,73(8):2441-2445
The microstructures of gas-pressure-sintered materials from β-Si3 N4 powder were characterized in terms of the diameter and aspect ratio of the grains. The size distributions of diameters in materials fabricated by heating for 1 h at 1850° to 2000°C were nearly constant when they were normalized by average diameters because of normal grain growth. The rate-determining step in the densification and grain growth was expected to be the diffusion of materials through the liquid phase. The activation energy for grain growth was 372 kJ/mol. The average aspect ratio of the grains was 3 to 4, whereas that of large grains was smaller because of shape accommodation. The fracture toughness was about the same as that of material from α-Si3 N4 powder despite the smaller aspect ratio of the grains 相似文献
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Xinwen Zhu Tohru S. Suzuki Tetsuo Uchikoshi Yoshio Sakka 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》2008,91(2):620-623
This paper reports the texturing behavior of β-sialon by strong magnetic field alignment (SMFA) during slip casting, followed by reaction pressureless sintering, using either α or β-Si3 N4 , Al2 O3 , and AlN as the starting materials. It is found that the β-Si3 N4 crystal exhibits a substantially stronger orientation ability than the α-Si3 N4 crystal regardless of the Si3 N4 raw powders in the magnetic field of 12 T. The β-raw powder produces a highly a , b -axis-oriented β-Si3 N4 green body with a Lotgering orientation factor of up to 0.97. During sintering, the β-raw powder allows the a , b -axis-oriented β-sialon to retain the Lotgering orientation factor similar to and even higher than that of β-Si3 N4 in the green body. In contrast, the α-raw powder leads to a faster transformation rate of α/β-Si3 N4 to β-sialon but a substantially lower texture in β-sialon. The results indicate that the use of the β-raw powder is more efficient for producing highly textured β-sialon via SMFA than that of the α-raw powder as well as the prolonged sintering. 相似文献
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Fengxia Li Li Fu Xiaojian Ma Changhui Sun LianCheng Wang Chunli Guo Yitai Qian Yitai Qian 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》2009,92(2):517-519
Starting from Si powder, NaN3 and different additives such as N -aminothiourea, iodine, or both, Si3 N4 nanomaterials were synthesized through the nitridation of silicon powder in autoclaves at 60°–190°C. As the additive was only N -aminothiourea, β-Si3 N4 nanorods and α-Si3 N4 nanoparticles were prepared at 170°C. If the additive was only iodine, α-Si3 N4 dendrites with β-Si3 N4 nanorods were obtained at 190°C. However, when both N -aminothiourea and iodine were added to the system of Si and NaN3 , the products composed of β-Si3 N4 nanorods and α, β-Si3 N4 nanoparticles could be prepared at 60°C. 相似文献
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Shock Synthesis of Cubic Silicon Nitride 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Toshimori Sekine 《Journal of the American Ceramic Society》2002,85(1):113-116
The phase transitions of α-Si3 N4 and β-Si3 N4 have been investigated by shock compression through the recovery technique and Hugoniot measurements. α- and β-Si3 N4 are transformed into a cubic spinel structure ( c -Si3 N4 ). The yield of c -Si3 N4 increases with increasing shock pressure and reaches 100% at 63 GPa. The shock-synthesized c -Si3 N4 powders are nanocrystals and display a high-temperature metastability up to about 1620 K. c -Si3 N4 is one of the hard materials based on the measured equation of state. c -Si3 N4 powders have been characterized by electron microscopy and 29 Si magic angle spinning NMR spectroscopy. The purification and separation method has been developed to obtain pure c -Si3 N4 powders. 相似文献