Cold sintering and electric characterization of ZnO-BaTiO3 composites

Abstract The sintering is an essential step in the processing of ceramics materials. A number of researchers have reported new techniques for sintering. However, in general, the process still demands high temperatures. This paper reports the results of the cold sintering of ZnO-BaTiO3 composites. The microstructural, structural, and electric properties of the composite were studied. We obtained high densities (>95%) for pure ZnO and for the composition with 10 wt% of BaTiO3 at a low temperature of sintering (250 °C/1 h). The increase of BaTiO3 content reduced the grain size and degraded the s...