Particles redistribution and structural defects development during ice templating

Autor: Jérôme Adrien, Audrey Lasalle, Sylvain Deville, Christian Guizard, Eric Maire
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de Synthèse et Fonctionnalisation de Céramiques (LSFC), Saint Gobain-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Matériaux, ingénierie et science [Villeurbanne] (MATEIS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Acta Materialia
Acta Materialia, Elsevier, 2012, 60 (11), pp.4594-4603. ⟨10.1016/j.actamat.2012.02.023⟩
ISSN: 1359-6454
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2012.02.023⟩
Popis: The freezing of colloidal suspensions is encountered in many natural and engineering processes. It can be harnessed through a process known as ice templating, to produce porous materials and composites exhibiting unique functional properties. The phenomenon by itself appears simple: a solidification interface propagates through a colloidal suspension. We are nevertheless still far from a complete understanding and control of the phenomenon. Such lack of control is reflected in the very large scattering of mechanical properties reported for ice-templated ceramics, largely due to the formation of structural defects. Through systematic in situ investigations, we demonstrate here the role of the suspension composition and the role of particle-particle electrostatic interactions on defect formation during ice templating. Flocculation can occur in the intercrystal space, leading to a destabilisation of the solid/liquid interface triggering the growth of crystals perpendicular to the main ice growth direction. This mechanism largely contributes to the formation of structural defects and explains, to a large extent, the scattering of compressive strength values reported in the literature.
19 pages, 9 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE