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Indentation size effect in aqueous electrophoretic deposition zirconia dental ceramic

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Highly dense zirconia dental ceramic coatings were fabricated by aqueous electrophoretic deposition (EPD) and subsequently sintered between 1250 and 1450 °C. Microstructural examination revealed that aqueous EPDZrO2 coatings possessed a tetragonal phase structure and the grain size increased with increasing sintering temperature. Nanoindentation study proved that the aqueous EPDZrO2 coating also had excellent mechanical properties. The effect of different applied loads on hardness and elastic modulus of the 1350 °C-sintered sample at room temperature was investigated by the method of progressive multicycle measurement nanoindentation. The simulative experiment proved that hardness of aqueous EPDZrO2 exhibited reverse indentation size effect (ISE) behavior and then displayed the normal ISE response. The analysis indicates that the reverse ISE is attributed to the relaxation of surface stresses resulting from indentation cracks at small loads and normal ISE is caused by geometrically necessary dislocations. The tetragonal—monoclinic stress-induced phase transformation during nanoindentation is the primary cause of dental zirconia failures.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51501074), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M602983), and Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Jiangsu (1601047A). The authors also thank Dr. I. Asempah for his valuable help in improving the language of the manuscript.

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    Lei Wang, Sheng-Qi Zang & Lei Jin

  2. National Demonstration Center for Experimental Materials Science and Engineering Education, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, People’s Republic of China

    Lei Wang, Isaac Asempah, Xu Li, Yan-Fei Zhou & Jie Ding

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Wang, L., Asempah, I., Li, X. et al. Indentation size effect in aqueous electrophoretic deposition zirconia dental ceramic. Journal of Materials Research 34, 555–562 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.464

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