Research Article

Reactive Spark Plasma Sintering: Successes and Challenges of Nanomaterial Synthesis

Figure 5

XRD patterns of the SPS-ed compacts produced from Al2O3 and TiO2 nanopowder mixtures of different processing histories, SPS-temperature 1100°C: (a)—co-gelified Al2O3 and TiO2 powders, (b)—mechanical mixtures of Al2O3 and TiO2 individual sol-gel powders, (c)—powders synthesized by co-precipitation; squares-Al2TiO5, triangles-TiO2, and circles-Al2O3 (reprinted from [29], Copyright (2004), with permission from Elsevier).
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