Expansão térmica sintonizável do ZrW2O8

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Zirconium tungstate (a-ZrW2O8) exhibits isotropic negative thermal expansion over a wide range of temperature. Under high-pressures this material transforms to a metastable amorphous phase (a-ZrW2O8). a-ZrW2O8 can be fully recovered by annealing the amorphous phase at temperatures slightly above 600oC, at room pressure. The amorphous phase, in principle, should exhibit positive thermal expansion and, with the progressive recrystallization of the amorphous phase, it could be possible to obtain samples with tunable thermal expansion between the characteristic values of the amorphous and crystalline phases. It was exactly this possibility that was studied in this work. Samples of a-ZrW2O8 prepared at 7,7 GPa in a toroidal chamber in the Laboratório de Altas Pressões e Materiais Avançados at the Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, were submitted to successive heat treatments at different temperatures. X-ray diffraction measurements were performed in order to verify the occurrence of the phase transition (amorphous -->crystalline). The coefficient of thermal expansion of the samples of ZrW2O8 was determined using a thermomechanical analyzer. The results demonstrated the successful obtainment of crystalline-amorphous composites of ZrW2O8 with tunable thermal expansion coefficient between 7.5 x 10-6C-1 and -9 x 10-6C-1.

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cerâmica tungstato de zircônio materiais cerâmicos expansão térmica negativa expansão térmica

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