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Sintering 2026

30 August 2026 to 3 September 2026
Europe/Berlin timezone

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Fundamental aspects of sintering

FAS
31 Aug 2026, 13:40

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  1. 56. From Flash Sintering to Field-Free Ultrafast Sintering and Electric-Field-Driven Microstructure Control
    Jian Luo (Unversity of California San Diego)
    31/08/2026, 13:40
    Fundamental aspects of sintering
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    In 2015, we first reported that flash sintering generally initiates as a thermal runaway [Acta Mater. 94:87 (2015)]. Subsequent work demonstrated that ultrahigh heating rates of 100K/s, rather than the electric field, are the key factor enabling ultrafast sintering, via comparing flash sintering with rapid thermal annealing without an electric field [Acta Mater. 125:465 (2017)]. Subsequently,...

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  2. 35. Thermodynamics of Sintering: Grain Boundary Energy, Surface Energy, and Pore Stability
    Douglas Gouvêa (Universidade de São Paulo)
    31/08/2026, 13:40
    Fundamental aspects of sintering
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    The lecture emphasizes the importance of solid–solid interface energy, or grain boundaries, in the thermodynamics of interfaces during the sintering of ceramic materials. Three chemical potentials are identified: the difference in chemical potential between grain boundaries and surfaces emerges as a crucial factor for pore elimination. However, once this equilibrium is attained, a second...

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  3. 220. Grain boundary structure and chemistry as an effect of external fields and processing
    Klaus van Benthem (The University of Alabama, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Alabama Materials Institute, Tuscaloosa, CA, United States)
    31/08/2026, 16:00
    Fundamental aspects of sintering
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    Dopant adsorption at a grain boundary is described by the number of atoms per unit area of unit interface area in comparison to the adjacent bulk phase. The so-called excess quantity can be positive or negative dependent on whether there is an enrichment or depletion of dopant atoms at the grain boundary. In the first part of the talk suitable techniques to determine grain boundary excess...

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  4. 114. Liquid phase sintering an instrument of nanostructured materials architecture.
    Prof. Andrey Ragulya (Frantsevych Institute for Problems in Materials Science NAS of Ukraine, and Private Institute International Research Center NANO)
    01/09/2026, 09:00
    Fundamental aspects of sintering
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    The comparison of traditional high-temperature liquid phase sintering and advanced low-temperature cold sintering processes will be discussed in the frame of new materials science paradigm and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
    At present, two big parts of materials science exist: hard-bonded materials (with bond’s energy higher than 1 eV) and soft-bonded materials (with bond’s energy less than...

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  5. 134. Non-Equilibrium Relaxation during the Cold Sintering Process
    Sevag Momjian (The Pennsylvania State University)
    01/09/2026, 11:20
    Fundamental aspects of sintering
    3. Oral presentation

    Materials perturbed to non-equilibrium conditions will spontaneously relax to their equilibrium state. The cold sintering of ceramics can be understood in this way. Throughout the cold sintering process (CSP), various diffusional and creep mechanisms transfer material from grain boundaries to porous regions to drive densification. Here, we will show that a relaxation model can be used to...

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  6. 219. Sintering-Driven Evolution of Grain Boundary Complexions: Linking GBPD, Energy Distributions, and Atomic Structure Across Oxide and Silicate Systems
    K. (T.) Marquardt (Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)
    02/09/2026, 10:50
    Fundamental aspects of sintering
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    The evolution of grain boundary complexions (Cantwell et al., 2014) during sintering remains insufficiently understood, despite its critical role in controlling transport and functional properties of polycrystalline materials. Here, we combine electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM/PED) to establish a unified framework linking sintering conditions,...

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  7. 43. Sintering Hazards - A Non-Steady-State Approach to Kinetics
    Shen Dillon (University of California Irvine)
    03/09/2026, 09:00
    Fundamental aspects of sintering
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    In situ TEM based sintering experiments indicate that sintering kinetics are inherently non-steady-state due to the need to nucleate point defect sinks. In materials science, kinetic laws are typically derived from differential equations describing the relationship between instantaneous rate and driving force. These formulations are not adequate for problems that are inherently...

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  8. 213. TEST Peters
    Christoph Peters
    Sintering of specific material systems
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