Viviana Avila

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM

Research Interests

Reactive Flash Sintering, X-Ray Diffraction, In-situ Measurements, Energy Storage


Publications

  • Campos JV, Lavagnini IR, Avila V, Yoon B, Ghose S, Raj R, Pallone EMJA, Jesus LM. On the Arrhenius-like behavior of conductivity during flash sintering of 3 mol% yttria stabilized zirconia ceramics. Scr Mater. 2021;203:114093  doi
  • Avila V, Yoon B, Ghose S, Raj R, Jesus LM. Phase evolution during reactive flash sintering of Li6.25Al0.25La3Zr2O12 starting from a chemically prepared powder. J Eur Ceram Soc. 2021;41:4552-4557  doi
  • Yoon B, Avila V, Kathiria R, Jesus LM. Effects of powder dispersion on reactive flash sintering of 8 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia and MgAl2O4 composites. Scr Mater. 2020;189:117-121  doi
  • Yoon B, Avila V, Raj R, Jesus LM. Reactive flash sintering of the entropy-stabilized oxide Mg0.2Ni0.2Co0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2O. Scr Mater. 2020;181:48-52  doi
  • Avila V, Yoon B, Ingraci Neto RR, Silva RS, Ghose S, Raj R, Jesus LM. Reactive flash sintering of the complex oxide Li0.5La0.5TiO3 starting from an amorphous precursor powder. Scr Mater. 2020;176:78-82  doi
  • Avila V, Raj R. Reactive flash sintering of powders of four constituents into a single phase of a complex oxide in a few seconds below 700°C. J Am Ceram Soc. 2019;102:6443-6448 doi
  • Clemenceau T, Andriamady N, Kumar P, Badran A, Avila V, Dahl K, Hopkins M, Vendrell X, Marshall D, Raj R. Flash sintering of Li-ion conducting ceramic in a few seconds at 850°C. Scripta Mater. 2019;172:1-5.  doi
  • Mishra TP, Avila V, Ingraci Neto RR, Bram M, Guillon O, Raj R. On the role of Debye temperature in the onset of flash in three oxides. Scripta Mater. 2019;170:81-84. doi
  • Avila V, Raj R. Flash Sintering of Ceramic Films: the influence of surface to volume ratio. J Am Ceram Soc. 2019;102:3063-3069 doi