Bulletin of the Chinese Ceramic Society, Volume. 44, Issue 6, 2269(2025)

Preparation and Properties of Dense Aluminum Titanate Ceramics via Spark Plasma Sintering

JIANG Mengting and DENG Tengfei*
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  • State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
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    Received: Dec. 6, 2024

    Accepted: Jul. 30, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 30, 2025

    The Author Email: DENG Tengfei (dengtf@whut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.16552/j.cnki.issn1001-1625.2024.1508

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