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  • Title: Effect of Heating Modes on Reactive Sintering of Ca3Co4O9 Ceramics.
    Author: Teja PR, Annamalai AR, Evangeline T G, Srikanth M, Agrawal DK, Jen CP.
    Journal: Materials (Basel); 2021 Jan 07; 14(2):. PubMed ID: 33430402.
    Abstract:
    The traditional solid-state reaction method was employed to synthesize bulk calcium cobaltite (Ca349/Ca3Co4O9) ceramics via ball milling the precursor mixture. The samples were compacted using conventional sintering (CS) and spark plasma sintering (SPS) at 850, 900, and 950 °C. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern indicates the presence of the Ca349 phase for samples sintered at 850 and 900 °C. In addition, SPS fosters higher densification (81.18%) than conventional sintering (50.76%) at elevated sintering temperatures. The thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) performed on the precursor mixture reported a weight loss of ~25.23% at a temperature range of 600-820 °C. This current work aims to analyze the electrical properties (Seebeck coefficient (s), electrical resistivity (ρ), and power factor) of sintered samples as a function of temperature (35-500 °C). It demonstrates that the change in sintering temperature (conventional sintering) did not evince any significant change in the Seebeck coefficient (113-142 μV/K). However, it reported a low resistivity of 153-132 μΩ-m and a better power factor (82-146.4 μW/mK2) at 900 °C. On the contrary, the SPS sintered samples recorded a higher Seebeck coefficient of 121-181 μV/K at 900 °C. Correspondingly, the samples sintered at 950 °C delineated a low resistivity of 145-158 μΩ-m and a better power factor (97-152 μW/mK2).
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