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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 741214, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/741214 Research Article Effect of Particle Morphology on Sinterability of SiC-ZrO2 in Microwave Lydia Anggraini1 and Kei Ameyama2 1 Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu 525-8577, Japan 2 College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu 525-8577, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Lydia Anggraini, gr040069@ed.ritsumei.ac.jp Received 2 August 2011; Revised 26 October 2011; Accepted 27 October 2011 Academic Editor: Li-Hong Liu Copyright © 2012 L. Anggraini and K. Ameyama. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The effect of particle morphology on the sinterability of microwave-sintered SiC-ZrO2 was evaluated in this paper. A comparison was also made against the electric furnace and resulted in faster heating rate because of the difference of heat transfer in the sintering processes. High-energy mechanical milling process has been applied to obtain the homogeneous particle morphology and finer particles size. The microstructure of finer particles of SiC-ZrO2 after milling was better in the region sintered by microwave. The microstructure in the sintered region was smaller for the coarser particles which were obtained by heterogeneous nonmilled powder mixture. The result of the Vickers hardness test was higher for the powder homogeneously dispersed SiC-ZrO2 after milling and sintering by microwave. These are influenced by the difference of individu