1. A two-step heating strategy for low-temperature fabrication of high sinterability and fine MgAlON powder with MgAl2O4 as Mg source.
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Jiang, Xuan, Shan, Yingchun, Sun, Xiannian, Huang, Chaojun, Ma, Liya, Xu, Jiujun, and Li, Jiangtao
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POWDERS , *ALUMINUM oxide - Abstract
Based on the reaction sequence during synthesis of MgAlON powder by solid-state reaction, a two-step heating strategy is proposed to low-temperature fabricate fine MgAlON powder of high sinterability by using MgAl 2 O 4 as Mg source, respectively together with AlON and Al 2 O 3 +AlN. By introduction of an additional dwelling at 1550 °C to the first heating step, more α-Al 2 O 3 dissolve into the solid solution at this temperature. By this way, overlarge particles of Al 2 O 3 by agglomeration could be avoided in the next heating step to enable fast full reaction at a lower temperature. By dwelling 30 min at 1550 °C followed by 60 min at 1700 °C, single phase MgAlON powders were successfully prepared by solid-state reaction of all the two batches. The fine MgAlON powder synthesized by MAS+Al 2 O 3 +AlN batch exhibited high sinterability as the MgAlON ceramics pressureless sintered by this powder at 1880 °C without dwelling showed a transmittance up to 68.3%. The phase assemblage and morphology evolution of the mixture during solid-state reaction were monitored, which verified the effectiveness of the proposed two-step heating strategy. The low synthesis temperature of the two-step heating scheme benefits to prepare pure MgAlON powder with small particle size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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