Glue for Silicon Nitride

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode 122 of the Professor Alex Volinsky podcast. Silicon nitride is superb — hard, strong, thermal-shock resistant — but brittle and hard to join: thermal mismatch tears joints apart on cooling, and molten fillers refuse to wet ceramics. This paper screens interfacial-metal candidates computationally with density functional theory. Based on the paper: Selection of Interfacial Metals for Si3N4 Ceramics by the Density Functional Theory; X. Pang, B. Yang, S. Yang, H. Ren, H. Yang, K. Gao, A.A. Volinsky; Chemical Physics Letters, 2020, Vol. 763, article 138189. Hosts Elena and Marcus. AI-generated voices.

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