Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t8hqh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T16:28:26.806Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Effect of Cerium Oxide Additions on the Densification Behaviour of Alumina Gels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Ratnesh Dwivedi
Affiliation:
Lanxide Corporation, One Tralee Industrial Park, Newark, DE 19711
Jane Adams
Affiliation:
IIT Research Institute, 10 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Get access

Abstract

Sintering behavior of gel-derived alumina containing 2.8 mol percent cerium oxide (Ce2 O3) was studied at 1400°C. The growth morphology of alpha alumina in cerium oxide-containing aluminas was found to be significantly different form that of pure gel-derived alumina. Alumina gel containing 2.8 mol % Ce2 O3 was found to densify to 81% of the theoretical density as compared to 65% for pure alumina gels. The powdered cerium oxide-containing gels, pressed into a pellet, could be sintered to 97% of the theoretical density at 1400°C as compared to 87% found for pure alumina gel powder processed in an identical manner.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Yoldas, B. E., Ceramic Bulletin, 54 (3), 286 (1975).Google Scholar
2. Yoldas, B. E., J. Mat. Science, 10, 1856 (1975).Google Scholar
3. Yoldas, B. E., J. Am. Cer. Soc., 65 (8), 387 (1982).Google Scholar
4. Badkar, P. A. and Bailey, J. E., J. Mat. Sci., 11, 1794 (1976).Google Scholar
5. Becher, P. F., Somers, J. H., Bender, B. A. and MacFarlane, B. A., in Processing of Crystalline Ceramics, Materials Science Research, Vol. 11, Edited by Palmour, H., Davies, R. F. and Hare, T., (Plenum Press, New York, 1978), p. 70.Google Scholar
6. Kumagai, M. and Messing, G. L., Comm. Am. Cer. Soc, Nov., 1984, C–230.Google Scholar
7. Chaklader, A. C., J. Am. Cer. Soc., 61 (5–6), 252 (1978).Google Scholar
8. Dynys, F. W., Lzungberg, M. and Holloran, J. W., in Better Ceramics Through Chemistry, edited by Brinker, C. J., Clark, B. E. and Ulrich, D. R., (North-Holland, New York, 1984), p. 321.Google Scholar
9. Mizuno, M., Berjoan, R., Coutures, J. and Foex, M., Yogyo-Kyokai Shi, 83 (2), 90, 1975.Google Scholar