Multiscale Modeling of Materials LabSan Diego State University

Research project

Flash Sintering

Flash Sintering and Current-Driven Ceramic Processes

Field-assisted ceramic processing can accelerate densification and reveal new coupling among current, heat, defects, and microstructure.

Research focus

The lab studies 8 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia and related ceramic systems to understand how electric fields, temperature, and microstructure interact during rapid sintering.

Methods

molecular dynamicsin-situ SEMsample preparation8YSZ processing