Abstract
Flash Sintering (FS), a relatively new Field-Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST) for ceramic processing, was proposed for the first time in 2010 by Prof. Rishi Raj’s group from the University of Colorado at Boulder. It quickly grabbed the attention of the scientific community and since then, the field has rapidly evolved, constituting a true milestone in materials processing with the number of publications growing year by year. Moreover, nowadays, there is already a scientific community devoted to FS. In this work, a general picture of the scientific landscape of FS is drawn by bibliometric analysis. The target sources, the most relevant documents, hot and trending topics as well as the social networking of FS are unveiled. A separate bibliometric analysis is also provided for Reaction or Reactive Flash Sintering (RFS), where not only the sintering, but also the synthesis is merged into a single step. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of this nature carried out in this field of research and it can constitute a useful tool for researchers to be quickly updated with FS as well as to strategize future research and publishing approaches.
Highlights
Flash Sintering (FS), an electric Field-Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST) [1] for the densification of ceramic materials at a greatly reduced temperature and time, has gained widespread attention since it was established in 2010 by Prof
Rishi Raj’s group from the University of Colorado at Boulder. It basically consists of simultaneously applying heat and a modest electric field to a green body [2] placed on a furnace, allowing the current to totally flow through the sample
The analysis reveals that the documents have been published in 63 different journals (Table 1)
Summary
Flash Sintering (FS), an electric Field-Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST) [1] for the densification of ceramic materials at a greatly reduced temperature and time, has gained widespread attention since it was established in 2010 by Prof. At a given applied electric field, there is a critical temperature at which there is a sudden non-lineal rise of the conductivity of the material, which is normally accompanied by instantaneous densification as well as photoluminescence [3] This signals the flash event and it is accepted that it is initiated by a thermal runaway induced by Joule Heating [4,5]. The results derived from this bibliometric analysis allow one to identify the target sources and trend topics in order to strategize future research and publishing approaches. Those publications that most influence this research field have been pointed out. Those two are the core journals where more than one-third of the entire
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