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Abstract
Biocompatible Al2O3-hBN ceramic was sintered from AlN and B2O3 precursors by reaction hot pressing at 1750 °C and 30 MPa for 8 min. The ceramic was compared to nonreactive (NR) one sintered from Al2O3 and BN under the same sintering conditions. The NR ceramic possesses 9% porosity as opposed to only 2% porosity for the reaction sintered Al2O3-hBN. The reaction sintered ceramic has crack resistance in the region of 5.0 ± 0.1 MPa·m1/2, which is approximately 20% higher than previously reported pure Al2O3 or Al2O3-hBN sintered without reaction support. The higher amount of hBN in the developed Al2O3-hBN material (27 vol %) facilitates hardness lowering to the region of 6 GPa, which is closer to the bone hardness and makes the ceramic machinable. Reaction sintering of the Al2O3-hBN composite opens a new area of creation and formation of load-bearing Al2O3-hBN ceramic bioimplants.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2205-2209 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | ACS Omega |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 7 Jan 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 18 Jan 2022 |
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ESPRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology
Jiang, J., Blunt, L., Longstaff, A., Towns-Andrews, L., Scott, P., Myers, A., Fletcher, S. & Ball, A.
1/09/11 → 28/02/17
Project: Research
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Future Advanced Metrology Hub
Jiang, J., Martin, H., Longstaff, A., Kadirkamanathan, V., Turner, M. S., Keogh, P., Scott, P., McLeay, T. E., Blunt, L., Zeng, W., Huntley, J. M., Bills, P., Fletcher, S., Gao, F., Coupland, J. M., Kinnell, P., Mahfouf, M. & Mullineux, G.
1/10/16 → 30/09/23
Project: Research