Influence of starch type on characteristics of porous 3Y-ZrO2 prepared from a direct consolidation casting method

Starch consolidation casting has been successfully used to produce porous ceramics with complex shapes at a relatively low producing cost. In this work, porous 3Y-ZrO2 ceramics were produced using two types of starch (corn and potato). Concentrated (50-52 vol. (%)) aqueous suspensions of the different 3Y-ZrO2-starch mixtures (i.e. starch to zirconia weight ratios between 0.20 and 0.52) were thermally consolidated and the effect of the type and amount of added starch on properties of resultant dried product was examined. After starch granules burnout, the effect of sintering temperature varying...