About Spark Plasma Sintering

Sintering is the process of making objects from powder, by heating the material in a furnace below its melting point so that bonding takes place by diffusion of atoms. This leads to individual powder particles adhering to each other in a dense compact. The process is usually used for ceramics. Sintering can be done using various methods as Conventional Sintering, Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS), Microwave Sintering etc. Spark Plasma sintering is one of the processing routes to process biomaterials in laboratory.