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Application of Suspension Plasma Spraying (SPS) for Manufacture of Ceramic Coatings

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Conventional thermal spray processes as atmospheric plasma spraying (APS) have to use easily flowable powders with a size up to 100 μm. This leads to certain limitations in the achievable microstructural features. Suspension plasma spraying (SPS) is a new promising processing method which employs suspensions of sub-micrometer particles as feedstock. Therefore much finer grain and pore sizes as well as dense and also thin ceramic coatings can be achieved. Highly porous coatings with fine pore sizes are needed as electrodes in solid-oxide fuel cells. Cathodes made of LaSrMn perovskites have been produced by the SPS process. Their microstructural and electrochemical properties will be presented. Another interesting application is thermal barrier coating (TBC). SPS allows the manufacture of high-segmented TBCs with still relatively high porosity levels. In addition to these specific applications also the manufactures of new microstructures like nano-multilayers and columnar structures are presented.

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    Holger Kassner, Roberto Siegert, Dag Hathiramani, Robert Vassen & Detlev Stoever

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Kassner, H., Siegert, R., Hathiramani, D. et al. Application of Suspension Plasma Spraying (SPS) for Manufacture of Ceramic Coatings. J Therm Spray Tech 17, 115–123 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-007-9144-2

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