Zirconia has three crystalline forms: monoclinic phase, tetragonal phase and cubic phase. Monoclinic phase exists in zirconia stable up to temperature 1170˚C. Above 1170˚C, the monoclinic phase transforms to tetragonal phase and further transform to cubic phase above 2370˚C. While cooling down below 1070˚C, tetragonal phase becomes unstable and start transformation of monoclinic phase. Thus tetragonal phase is hard to exist at the room temperature.
As tetragonal phase has high toughness and high strength, additional stabiliser such as Yttria can maintain the tetragonal phase of zirconia at low temperature. However, degradation gradually happens in Y-TZP after a certain years, especially under hydrothermal condition.
2.2 Low Temperature Degradation
When zirconia exposes in the air or some environment such as water vapour, hydrothermal condition over a range of temperature 65˚C to 500˚C, the tetragonal phase of zirconia transforms to the monoclinic phase, is known as low temperature degradation.
After tetragonal phase transforms to monoclinic phase, the surface of the zirconia will becomes rough and the mechanical properties become weaker when existing in monoclinic phase.
At the room temperature, the degradation can happen continuously especially at high humidity environment. Water or water vapour can even more enhance the transformation of tetragonal phase to monoclinic phase.
The degradation reacts fastest at the temperature 200˚C to 300˚C and over a certain time (Yoshimura, 1988). The degradation proceeds on the surface of zirconia and gradually corrodes the interior of zirconia. Transformation proceeds from grain boundary to grain interior. Thus, the thermal stability is subjected to surface grains.
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...the more stable there is. However, the fracture toughness decreases if the phase is too stable. While tetragonal phase transform to monoclinic, the mechanical properties decrease at the same time but fracture toughness will increase.
2.3.2 Distribution of Stabilizer
Higher content of ytrrium was found that distributed on the grain boundary. This result made the depletion of the grain interior (Winubst and Burggraaf, 1988). This appearance represent nonuniform distribution of stabilizer should have smaller grain size than critical grain size of uniform distribution of stabilizer in order to prevent the effect of the grain size inducing the degradation.
2.4 Control the Phase Transformation
Generally, there are three methods to prevent the phase transformation of Y-TZP against ageing- (1) additive, (2) grain size, (3) coating, (4) surface recrystallization.
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