Revision surgeries of total hip arthroplasty are often caused by a deficient structural compatibility of the implant. Two main culprits, among others, are bone-implant interface instability and bone resorption. To address these issues, in this paper we propose a novel type of implant, which, in contrast to current hip replacement implants made of either a fully solid or a foam material, consist...

Partially stabilized zirconia (PSZ) agglomerate toughened alumina has been prepared by the "deflocculation-flocculation" technique, using 2 and 3 mol. % Y2O3-doped zirconia powders. Samples containing up to about 30 vol.% zirconia were obtained. The resulting microstructure seems to be mainly influenced by the physical properties of the starting powders, e.g. agglomerate size and the specific s...

in this paper, the properties and microstructure of foam glasses obtained from the wasted cathode ray tube (crt) display panels were investigated. the foam glasses were prepared at the temperatures of 850, 950 and 1050c using 2, 4, 6 and 8 wt.% silicon carbide (sic) as the foaming agent. the physical and mechanical properties of the samples including the density, porosity, four-point bending s...

In this study we report on the sintering behavior, microstructure and electrical properties of Al-doped ZnO ceramics containing 0-0.2 wt. % graphene sheets (AZO-GNSs) and processed using spark plasma sintering (SPS). Our results show that the addition of <0.25 wt. % GNSs enhances both the relative density and the electrical resistivity of AZO ceramics. In terms of the microstructure, the GNSs a...

in this research the influence of adding sic on microstructure and electrical properties of zno-based nanocomposite varistors were investigated. sic was added with amounts of 10-0 mass% to zno-based varistor composition. it is found that sic allows reaching to high threshold voltage with formation of fine-grained zno.another important effect of adding sic is formation zn2sio4 (willemite) on the ...

The sinterability, microstructure, and mechanical properties of pure TiB2- CrB2-doped ZrB2 prepared by spark plasma sintering were investigated. solid solutions synthesized the complete borothermal reduction to form (Zr0.95Ti0.05)B2 (Zr0.95Cr0.05)B2. results showed that solution yielded smaller particle size than sinterability was also improved with use solutions, as evidenced an increase relat...