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Advances in Applied Ceramics
Structural, Functional and Bioceramics
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Research Article

TEM investigation of hot pressed ‐10 vol.%SiC–ZrB2 composite

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Pages 1-7 | Received 10 Feb 2010, Accepted 26 Apr 2010, Published online: 22 Nov 2013
 

Abstract

Abstract

The polytypism of SiC, phase transformation of ZrB2 and the interfaces between SiC and ZrB2 were investigated using high resolution TEM in a hot pressed 10 vol.%SiC‐ZrB2 composite. In most cases, no grain boundary interphases between hexagonal ZrB2 and 6H‐SiC phases were observed with SiC being both inter‐ and intragranular. Occasionally, 6H‐SiC transformed into 3C and 15R and hexagonal ZrB2 transformed into cubic ZrB. High resolution TEM showed no grain boundary interphases in most regions. Energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy and electron energy‐loss spectroscopy analyses showed the presence of oxygen throughout the sample. The phase transformation of SiC and ZrB2, and the interphase formation between SiC and ZrB2 grains are discussed.

One of the authors, DDJ thanks the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) for providing the financial support for this work under contract number DSTLX‐1000015413. The authors kindly acknowledge use of the FEI TITAN 80–300 STEM facility at Imperial College London for HRTEM characterisation of interfaces.

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