About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Advancing the Frontier of Powder Materials Processing and Sintering: A MPMD/EPD Symposium in Honor of Eugene Olevsky
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| Presentation Title |
From Flash Sintering to Ultrafast Sintering without Electric Currents in Specimens |
| Author(s) |
Jian Luo |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Jian Luo |
| Abstract Scope |
This talk will first review a series of mechanistic studies of flash sintering using ZnO as the model system [see a perspective article: Scripta Materialia 146:260 (2018)]. In 2015, we reported that flash sintering generally starts as a thermal runaway [Acta Materialia 94:87 (2015)]. In 2017, we furthered suggest ultrahigh heating rates enable ultrafast sintering by demonstrating that similar densification rates can be achieved via (1) flash sintering and (2) rapid thermal annealing (intense infrared heating without an electric field) with similar heating rates of ~200 K/s [Acta Materialia125:465 (2017)]. Subsequently, general ultrafast sintering methods, enabled by the same underlying mechanism, were demonstrated in collaborative studies led by Professor Liangbing Hu, e.g., ultrafast high-temperature sintering [Science 368:521 (2020)] and atmospheric-pressure plasma sintering [Nature 623:964 (2023)]. Our recent work demonstrated reactive synthesis and ultrafast sintering of refractory compositionally complex alloy-carbide composites [Scripta Materialia 262:116654 (2025)] and induction ultrafast sintering (IUS, unpublished). |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Process Technology, Ceramics, Powder Materials |