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Mechanism for electric field effects during sintering

By Eileen De Guire / September 15, 2011

The image on the left is 3Y-TZP sintered at 1,500°C. The image on the right is of 3Y-TZP, which had a 60 Hertz AC electric field applied to it followed…

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Sintering in a flash? Researchers show its possible to do it in seconds with nanograin YSZ, heat and dc electric field

By / October 13, 2010

Talk about tantalizing tidbits of technology! There is a new article available online that reports on research showing that green-density yttrium-stabilized zirconia can be sintered to full density in only…

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Bloom Box boom leaves lots of questions

By / February 24, 2010

Today was Bloom Energy‘s big media extravaganza and it seems like they were aiming for something on the order of what Apple or Microsoft would try to pull off. The…

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