Abstract
Two series of Sc-stabilized zirconia nanostructured ceramic composites were prepared from mechanochemical origin nanopowders. The first series was obtained by reaction sintering, and the second one by conventional sintering of ceramic powders prepared mechanical activation route. Ceramic samples were studied by complex impedance method and characterized by XRD, SEM with EDX microanalysis. Dense nanostructured ceramics with high conductivity at operation temperature for IT SOFC 900-1000 K were obtained by sintering at 1673 K. The ceramic composites contain mainly cubic phase with minor tetragonal and monoclinic phases. The ordered cracking of grains near the surface with a size of blocks ~20 nm was observed. Cracking near surface and nanostructuring both results from relaxation of mechanical strains related to misfit in volume transformations under cooling of cubic matrix and embedded tetra/monoclinic nanograins. Nano- and microstructure design of composites by mechanochemical ceramic method may become a promising approach in solid state ionics.
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