

Nanostructured powders, with crystallite size of ZnO, spinel and γ-Bi2O3 phases below 100 nm, were obtained by the mechanical attrition of ZnO varistor powders prepared by method of directed synthesis of the constituent phases. Powders were further sintered and the resulting varistors showed excellent electrical characteristics with the non-linearity coefficients reaching 45, low values of the leakage current and density reaching 99% of the theoretical value. © 1994.
This research was financially supported by the Republic Science Foundation through the project "Physicochemical Processes in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Systems," and "Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Metal and Ceramics Matrix Composites."
Brankovic, Z.; Institute of Technical Sciences, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihajlova 35/IV,
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