Weeping ceramic material phenomenon (VIDEO)

University of Minnesota

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This video shows a sample that has a composition tuned to have excellent compatibility between phases, but poor compatibility at grain boundaries. It gradually falls apart at the grain boundaries on passing through phase transformation. A phenomenon the authors call “weeping.”

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Jascha Rohmer, Kiel University

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