Spark Plasma Sintering of Materials: Processing and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 2024
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Spark plasma sintering (SPS) technology has attracted much attention not only for the enhancement of consolidation process and capable of producing highly dense materials with smaller grain size and cleaner grain boundaries, but also in exploring the mechanisms underlying fast sintering.
Different from the conventional sintering, SPS involves a pulsed electric current passing directly through the graphite die, by which results in much faster heating rate as well as the controversial contributions from electric field or/and plasma. Like that in hot pressing, SPS also involves the application of a uniaxial pressure for densification promotion. Generally, the rapid densification of SPS has been considered resulting from the joint actions contributing from rapid heating, temperature, pressure, and plausibly electric field. Those flexible parameters open up much more possibilities for microstructural manipulating that have never been achievable by conventional sintering techniques.
Thus, this Special Issue, with the title of “Spark Plasma Sintering of Materials: Processing and Applications”, will focus on the frontier researches associated with SPS technology for the materials of ceramics, metals, alloys, amorphous materials, and so on.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome. We appreciate your consideration and are looking forward to hearing a positive response from you soon.
Dr. Wei Ji
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spark plasma sintering
- high pressure
- flash spark plasma sintering
- ceramics
- alloys
