Electron microscopy to obtain for kinetic microwave sintering of ceramics SnO2-modified ZnO

• Grant number: 12/18066-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: Leinig Antonio Perazolli
• Grantee: Natalia Jacomaci
• Supervisor: Ana Maria Oliveira Rocha Senos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Aveiro (UA), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/01161-2 - SnO2 ceramic with low resistivity, BP.IC

Abstract

The sintered compacts will be analyzed by FEG-SEM and FEG-SEM/EDS for microstructural and morphological features with special attention to the formation of precipitates and / or segregated in grain boundaries, since the work done so far has obtained a dense ceramic with ohmic behavior, however the conditions, temperature, heating rate and isotherms, sintering in a microwave oven may have been the cause of the agent densifying microstructures have been precipitated on the surface of SnO2 ceramics. To obtain these results the microwave sintered samples obtained from the Institute of Chemistry-UNESP Araraquara-Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry technology will be brought to the UA-Portugal - Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composites - CICECO, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Ana Maria Oliveira Rocha Senos (AU)