​Sapphire crystal is a multifunctional material

Sapphire crystal is a multifunctional material

Today, most artificial sapphire is used as a functional material. However, structural sapphire can be predicted to have extremely high production rates. This is based on assessments by experts from the world's leading companies. According to the analysis that has been carried out, the future prospects of sapphire applications, 70% of the applications will be related to its mechanical, thermodynamic and chemical properties. For a long time, sapphire was not valued by materials scientists as a reasonable structural material because its processing was complex and expensive. After the full-face image of sapphire became widely available, this question was no longer relevant.

However, the purely physical barriers to using sapphire as a structural material remain. First, the main disadvantage of sapphire is its brittleness. In relation to other important working parameters such as thermal stability, hardness, corrosion resistance and density as well as practicality and low cost raw materials, sapphire is comparable to metals, alloys, and some ceramics. The brittle fracture tendency of sapphire is associated with low defect mobility, which is the main result of the special ionic covalent bonds of this material. Therefore, a great deal of research effort is now devoted to eliminating and eliminating the microscopic defects that act as the center of the fragmentation nucleus when the sapphire is under load.

In the development of the sapphire industry and corresponding application areas, the practice of the past decade has shown that there has been a considerable increase in interest in both structural and functional sapphire. It's fair to say that this sapphire revival is one of the most important trends in modern materials science. This is due to a number of facts, which are:

Sapphire is a versatile material.

Raw materials for the production of sapphire are readily available and inexpensive. Typically, sapphire production processes consume less energy and allow for large crystal growth than alternative material production processes. Sapphire production does not pollute the environment. Sapphire growth is less hazardous than alternative materials due to the absence of processes like electrolysis, pyrometallurgy, the action of aggressive media and other factors. Compared with other materials, sapphire has higher corrosion resistance and radiation resistance, which makes sapphire components have a longer service life in aggressive media. Sapphire is characterized by high biocompatibility compared with metals and polymers. Therefore, sapphire can be used as a medical implant device, as a structural material for biotechnology in medical device manufacturing and genetic engineering.

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