Chemical Reaction, Substructure, and Mechanical Behavior of Spinel MgAl2O4, Mullite, and Forsterite Nanocrystallines by Applying Mechanochemical Process and Subsequent Three-Step Heat Treatment

Subject Areas : Ceramics

Habib Fazelinezhad ¹ , Kourosh Hormozi ² , Iman Emami ³ , Saeid Jabbarzare ⁴ , Ahmad Monshi ⁵

1 - Department of Materials Engineering, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Department of Materials Engineering, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Department of Materials Engineering, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
4 - Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Materials Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
5 - Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2022-04-07 Accepted : 2023-06-30 Published : 2022-07-01

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