Dynamic shock compaction of a ZrO2-RuO2 electronic nanocomposite: toward functionally graded materials

Zyl van, Werner E. and Carton, Erik P. and Raming, Tomas P. and Elshof ten, Johan E. and Verweij, Henk (2005) Dynamic shock compaction of a ZrO2-RuO2 electronic nanocomposite: toward functionally graded materials. Physica Status Solidi A: Applied research, 202 (12). R132-R134. ISSN 0031-8965

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Abstract:	An electronic ZrO2-RuO2 nanocomposite was fabricated by dynamic compaction (DC) at 1.5 GPa resulting in a maximum relative density of 88% in the material. The DC process formed pristine elongated conical-shaped compacts 3 cm in length. The compacts retained their original nanometer-sized grains (~20 nm) of the original powder from which it was prepared, marking the densest RuO2-based nanocomposite to date. A change by a remarkable factor of 107 in electrical conductance was observed for two separate specimens, one processed by DC (δ = 1.1 × 10-4 S cm-1) and the other by conventional pressureless sintering (δ = 2.1 × 103 S cm-1) both obtained from the same starting nanopowder and thus with a similar concentration of conductor phase at 10 mol% RuO2.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2005 Wiley InterScience
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Inorganic Materials Science (IMS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72015
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.200521124
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