He calls the new product ADAM coupled with microwave sintering.
The microwave sintering [29, 30] was done in a commercial microwave oven operating at 2.46 GHz, with the output power of 80 W.
In this work, single orthorhombic phase Bi2−xSnxS3 (x = 0, 0.005, 0.015, 0.025, 0.05) bulk materials were prepared by combining solvothermal method with microwave sintering.
Owing to their more complex electrochemical properties, these classes of materials have proven to be good electromagnetic susceptors and consequently are being processed with microwave sintering.
And also the relative density and hardness of samples were estimated to be 95.14% and 98.5 HRB by microwave sintering at 850 °C.
Applying the SR-CT technology on the research of microwave sintering can realize the observation of the evolution of microstructure under microwave and high-temperature field in a nondestructive, 3D and real-time way, provide more accurate experiment data for revealing the kinetics mechanism, and offer direct foundation for establishing the theory of microwave sintering.
This study will help to provide a useful reference for the improvement of the microstructure characteristics of metal ceramic materials in microwave sintering.
Besides, depending on this equipment, the first observation of the microstructure evolution of SiC during microwave sintering was carried out, and a few sintering phenomena during three sintering stages were clearly observed.
This new method is undoubtedly attractive to increase our understanding of microwave sintering and very useful to control the microstructure of the microwave sintered ceramics.
The fabricating methods of CNTs/ceramic composites include hot pressing process (HP), hot isostatic pressing-sintering (Sinter-HIP), spark plasma sintering (SPS), microwave sintering, and high-temperature extrusion molding according to the sintering process [ 86, 87].
