National Spark Plasma Sintering Facility

OVERVIEW
Acronym SPS
Partner institution

Stockholms Universitet





Description

Unique sintering facility with two Spark plasma sintering units, where the other one is placed in inert atmosphere glove box. The maximum temperatures reached are 2500 °C with small sample sizes. And uniaxial pressures that can be aplied are 50 kN and 250 kN

SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN
Scientific domain

PE11_2 - Unknown - Unknown





 

PE11_1 - Engineering of biomaterials, biomimetic, bioinspired and bio-enabled materials - Materials Engineering





 

PE5_7 - Biomaterials synthesis - Synthetic Chemistry and Materials





 

PE11_3 - Engineering of ceramics and glasses - Materials Engineering





 

PE11_7 - Engineering of metal oxides - Materials Engineering





 

PE11_4 - Engineering of polymers and plastics - Materials Engineering





 

PE11_6 - Engineering of carbon materials - Materials Engineering





 

PE5_6 - New materials: oxides, alloys, composite, organic-inorganic hybrid, nanoparticles - Synthetic Chemistry and Materials





 

PE11_12 - Semi-conducting and magnetic materials engineering - Materials Engineering





 

PE11_5 - Engineering of composites and hybrid materials - Materials Engineering





 

PE5_2 - Solid state materials chemistry - Synthetic Chemistry and Materials





Keywords

Electric field assisted sintering





INFRASTRUCTURE
Remote access details

The National SPS Faciliy is open reserach facility available to academics and companies

AMENITIES
Equipment

Full service with operator (according to a quotation), training to use the facility and access to the facility after training