Dr Salvatore Grasso
PhD, MSc, FHEA, Royal Society Industry Fellow

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2011

• Physical and mechanical properties of highly textured polycrystalline Nb₄AlC₃ceramic
  Hu C, Sakka Y, Nishimura T, Guo S, Grasso S, Tanaka H
  Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Informa Uk Limited vol. 12 (4), 044603-044603.  
  DOI 10.1088/1468-6996/12/4/044603
  
  01-08-2011
• Shell-like nanolayered Nb4AlC3 ceramic with high strength and toughness
  Hu C, Sakka Y, Grasso S, Nishimura T, Guo S, Tanaka H
  Scripta Materialia, Elsevier Bv vol. 64 (8), 765-768.  
  DOI 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2010.12.045
  
  01-04-2011
• High-hardness B4C textured by a strong magnetic field technique
  Grasso S, Hu C, Vasylkiv O, Suzuki TS, Guo S, Nishimura T, Sakka Y
  Scripta Materialia, Elsevier Bv vol. 64 (3), 256-259.  
  DOI 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2010.10.010
  
  01-02-2011
• Effects of Pressure Application Method on Transparency of Spark Plasma Sintered Alumina
  Grasso S, Hu C, Maizza G, Kim B-N, Sakka Y
  Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 94 (5), 1405-1409.  
  DOI 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04274.x
  
  14-01-2011
• Modeling of the temperature distribution of flash sintered zirconia
  GRASSO S, SAKKA Y, RENDTORFF N, HU C, MAIZZA G, BORODIANSKA H, VASYLKIV O
  Journal of The Ceramic Society of Japan, Ceramic Society of Japan vol. 119 (1386), 144-146.  
  DOI 10.2109/jcersj2.119.144
  
  01-01-2011

2010

• Tailoring Ti₃SiC₂ Ceramic via a Strong Magnetic Field Alignment Method Followed by Spark Plasma Sintering
  Hu C, Sakka Y, Grasso S, Suzuki T, Tanaka H
  Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 94 (3), 742-748.  
  DOI 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04186.x
  
  04-11-2010
• Fabrication of Textured Nb₄AlC₃ Ceramic by Slip Casting in a Strong Magnetic Field and Spark Plasma Sintering
  Hu C, Sakka Y, Tanaka H, Nishimura T, Grasso S
  Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 94 (2), 410-415.  
  DOI 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04096.x
  
  27-09-2010
• Microstructure and properties of ZrB2–SiC composites prepared by spark plasma sintering using TaSi2 as sintering additive
  Hu C, Sakka Y, Tanaka H, Nishimura T, Guo S, Grasso S
  Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier Bv vol. 30 (12), 2625-2631.  
  DOI 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2010.05.013
  
  01-09-2010
• Highly Transparent Pure Alumina Fabricated by High‐Pressure Spark Plasma Sintering
  Grasso S, Kim B, Hu C, Maizza G, Sakka Y
  Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 93 (9), 2460-2462.  
  DOI 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.03811.x
  
  15-04-2010
• Synthesis, microstructure and mechanical properties of (Zr,Ti)B2-(Zr,Ti)N composites prepared by spark plasma sintering
  Hu C, Sakka Y, Tanaka H, Nishimura T, Grasso S
  Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier Bv vol. 494 (1-2), 266-270.  
  DOI 10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.01.006
  
  01-04-2010
• Microstructure and properties of ZrB2-SiC and HfB2-SiC composites fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS) using TaSi2 as sintering aid
  HU C, SAKKA Y, JANG B, TANAKA H, NISHIMURA T, GUO S, GRASSO S
  Journal of The Ceramic Society of Japan, Ceramic Society of Japan vol. 118 (1383), 997-1001.  
  DOI 10.2109/jcersj2.118.997
  
  01-01-2010

2009

• Low temperature thermal expansion, high temperature electrical conductivity, and mechanical properties of Nb4AlC3 ceramic synthesized by spark plasma sintering
  Hu C, Sakka Y, Tanaka H, Nishimura T, Grasso S
  Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier Bv vol. 487 (1-2), 675-681.  
  DOI 10.1016/j.jallcom.2009.08.036
  
  01-11-2009
• Electric current activated/assisted sintering (ECAS): a review of patents 1906–2008
  Grasso S, Sakka Y, Maizza G
  Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Informa Uk Limited vol. 10 (5), 053001-053001.  
  DOI 10.1088/1468-6996/10/5/053001
  
  01-10-2009
• Pressure Effect on the Homogeneity of Spark Plasma‐Sintered Tungsten Carbide Powder
  Grasso S, Sakka Y, Maizza G, Hu C
  Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 92 (10), 2418-2421.  
  DOI 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03211.x
  
  25-09-2009
• Moving finite-element mesh model for aiding spark plasma sintering in current control mode of pure ultrafine WC powder
  Maizza G, Grasso S, Sakka Y
  Journal of Materials Science, Springer Science and Business Media Llc vol. 44 (5), 1219-1236.  
  DOI 10.1007/s10853-008-3179-8
  
  01-03-2009
• Pressure Effects on Temperature Distribution during Spark Plasma Sintering with Graphite Sample
  Grasso S, Sakka Y, Maizza G
  Materials Transactions, Japan Institute of Metals vol. 50 (8), 2111-2114.  
  DOI 10.2320/matertrans.m2009148
  
  01-01-2009

2008

• Effects of Initial Punch-Die Clearance in Spark Plasma Sintering Process
  Grasso S, Sakka Y, Maizza G
  Materials Transactions, Japan Institute of Metals vol. 49 (12), 2899-2906.  
  DOI 10.2320/matertrans.mer2008263
  
  01-01-2008

2007

• Relation between microstructure, properties and spark plasma sintering (SPS) parameters of pure ultrafine WC powder
  Maizza G, Grasso S, Sakka Y, Noda T, Ohashi O
  Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Informa Uk Limited vol. 8 (7-8), 644-654.  
  DOI 10.1016/j.stam.2007.09.002
  
  01-01-2007

1996

• Posters
  Cerny V, Zivny P, Dostal P, Parizkova R, Zabka L, Hodgson RE, Bosenberg AT, Hadley GP et al.
  Intensive Care Medicine, Springer Science and Business Media Llc vol. 22 (S3), S397-S422.  
  DOI 10.1007/bf03216447
  
  01-09-1996

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