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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00139-w
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- Element 6
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- EPSRC [EP/F033605/1, EP/L027682/1, EP/K028707/1, EP/P002188/1]
- DOE Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Science Research Investment Fund
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1642489, EP/L027682/1, EP/P002188/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/P002188/1, EP/L027682/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Grain boundaries typically dominate fracture toughness, strength and slow crack growth in ceramics. To improve these properties through mechanistically informed grain boundary engineering, precise measurement of the mechanical properties of individual boundaries is essential, although it is rarely achieved due to the complexity of the task. Here we present an approach to characterize fracture energy at the lengthscale of individual grain boundaries and demonstrate this capability with measurement of the surface energy of silicon carbide single crystals. We perform experiments using an in situ scanning electron microscopy-based double cantilever beam test, thus enabling viewing and measurement of stable crack growth directly. These experiments correlate well with our density functional theory calculations of the surface energy of the same silicon carbide plane. Subsequently, we measure the fracture energy for a bi-crystal of silicon carbide, diffusion bonded with a thin glassy layer.
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