Achieving room temperature plasticity in TiO2 ceramics by flash processing
Abstract
Ceramics are indispensable materials for modern engineering and high-technology applications. However, the intrinsic brittleness at room temperature can cause catastrophic failure and severely limit their widespread applications. Here, we report a flash processing (FP) method based on the coupling of electric and thermal fields to significantly improve the room-temperature plasticity of TiO2 ceramics with a large plastic compressive strain of 15.4% during micropillar compression. This large room-temperature plasticity is attributed to the proliferation of stacking faults and twin boundaries during the loading process, which may be assisted by the high concentration of oxygen vacancies introduced by the FP method. Our findings suggest that FP can be a simple and effective method for achieving improved room-temperature plasticity of ceramic materials through defect engineering.
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BibTeX
@misc{su2026achieving,
title = {{Achieving room temperature plasticity in TiO2 ceramics by flash processing}},
author = {Xinghua Su and Zhenyu Li and Xufei Fang and Wenjun Lu and Mengyao Wang and Peng Zhao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.11587},
eprint = {2610.11587},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11587},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Achieving room temperature plasticity in TiO2 ceramics by flash processing
AU - Xinghua Su
AU - Zhenyu Li
AU - Xufei Fang
AU - Wenjun Lu
AU - Mengyao Wang
AU - Peng Zhao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.11587
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11587
AB - Ceramics are indispensable materials for modern engineering and high-technology applications. However, the intrinsic brittleness at room temperature can cause catastrophic failure and severely limit their widespread applications. Here, we report a flash processing (FP) method based on the coupling of electric and thermal fields to significantly improve the room-temperature plasticity of TiO2 ceramics with a large plastic compressive strain of 15.4% during micropillar compression. This large room-temperature plasticity is attributed to the proliferation of stacking faults and twin boundaries during the loading process, which may be assisted by the high concentration of oxygen vacancies introduced by the FP method. Our findings suggest that FP can be a simple and effective method for achieving improved room-temperature plasticity of ceramic materials through defect engineering.
ER -