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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 20, Pages 2991-3002Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2015.269
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) [ER46795]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR Ceramics 1055504]
- University of California LabFee Program [12-LF-239032]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1055504] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Nanocrystalline ceramics offer interesting and useful physical properties attributed to their inherent large volume fraction of grain boundaries. At the same time, these materials are highly unstable, being subjected to severe coarsening when exposed at moderate to high temperatures, limiting operating temperatures and disabling processing conditions. In this work, we designed highly stable nanocrystalline yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) by targeting a decrease of average grain boundary (GB) energy, affecting both driving force for growth and mobility of the boundaries. The design was based on fundamental equations governing thermodynamics of nanocrystals, and enabled the selection of lanthanum as an effective dopant which segregates to grain boundaries and lowers the average energy of YSZ boundaries to half. While this would be already responsible for significant coarsening reduction, we further experimentally demonstrate that the GB energy decreases continuously during grain growth caused by the enrichment of boundaries with dopant, enhancing further the stability of the boundaries. The designed composition showed impressive resistance to grain growth at 1100 degrees C as compared to the undoped YSZ and opens the perspective for similar design in other ceramics.
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