摘要:
A ceramic composite is provided comprising ceramic fibers and microparticles bound together as a porous matrix with a ceramic binder. The ceramic composite is particularly useful for transporting cryogenic fluids.
摘要:
A method of forming a ceramic composite including glass bonded microparticles. The process includes the steps of: felting a slurry of microparticles to form a mat; drying the mat; infusing a sol-gel binder into the mat; gelling the binder; and curing the binder.
摘要:
Woven or nonwoven long fiber sheets filled with two precursors each constituting an intermediate stage in a process for the preparation of a vitreous ceramic composition by the sol-gel route by hydrolysis and polycondensation using alcoholates or analogous compounds as the starting materials, that is to say an interface precursor in the form of a gel rich in water and a matrix precursor in the form of discrete particles capable of sintering at relatively low temperature, are stacked; the fibrous structure is compressed in the direction of stacking and the whole is heat-treated in order to convert the two precursors into a continuous matrix.
摘要:
Polymeric catalysts (e.g., polymeric acid catalysts such as poly(styrene)sulfonic acid) can be used in the synthesis of sol-gel derived ceramic materials from metal alkoxides, for example, organic/inorganic hybrid materials formed by reaction of a metal alkoxide and a reactive endcapped polymeric modifier. The use of a polymeric catalyst, rather than a conventional monomeric (inorganic or organic) acid catalyst, has a non-deleterious effect on the aging behavior and offers potential for control of rheological properties (spinnability, coatability, etc.) of the hybrid materials.
摘要:
Diamond-containing ceramic composites useful as substrates and the like in the electronics industry as well as for abrasive and cutting applications and methods of making same are disclosed. More specifically, the sol-gel process is used to fabricate the composites by combining water, an organometallic precursor compound, alcohol or similar solvent between the water and the precursor compound, a catalyst, diamond powder and a thickening agent to form a moldable, wet, porous gel which can be dried at a temperature below the boiling point of any of the gel liquids to form a stabilized porous composite. The stabilized porous composite can be densified, by heat, in an essentially oxygen-free atmosphere to form a diamond-containing ceramic composite having low porosity.
摘要:
This invention provides an optical medium which consists of an inorganic glass monolith with a microporous structure containing an organic component which exhibits nonlinear optical response.In one embodiment this invention provides a sol-gel process for producing a composite of a transparent homogeneous microporous inorganic oxide glass monolith and an organic compound which exhibits nonliner optical response.
摘要:
A high temperature structural insulating material useful as a liner for cylinders of high temperature engines through the favorable combination of high service temperature (above about 800.degree. C.), low thermal conductivity (below about 0.2 W/m.degree. C.), and high compressive strength (above about 250 psi). The insulating material is produced by selecting hollow ceramic beads with a softening temperature above about 800.degree. C., a diameter within the range of 20-200 .mu.m, and a wall thickness in the range of about 2-4 .mu.m; compacting the beads and a compatible silicate binder composition under pressure and sintering conditions to provide the desired structural form with the structure having a closed-cell, compact array of bonded beads.
摘要:
A conductive paste includes electrically conductive particles, a binder, an organic solvent, a glass powder, and a specific amount of inorganic oxide particles that are at least partially surface-coated with an organophosphorus compound and have a specific average particle size. Solar cell electrodes formed by firing the conductive paste have increased bond strength with a substrate.
摘要:
Disclosed is a plurality of glass-crystalline particles, wherein at least a portion of the glass-crystalline particles comprise a glass component and a crystalline component, and wherein the crystalline component comprises one or more metal oxides wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of: Zn, Ca, Sr, Mg, Ba, and mixtures thereof.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing polycrystalline abrasive elements consisting of micron, sub-micron or nano-sized ultrahard abrasives dispersed in micron, sub-micron or nano-sized matrix materials. A plurality of ultrahard abrasive particles having vitreophilic surfaces are coated with a matrix precursor material in a refined colloidal process and then treated to render them suitable for sintering. The matrix precursor material can be converted to an oxide, nitride, carbide, oxynitride, oxycarbide, or carbonitride, or an elemental form thereof. The coated ultrahard abrasive particles are consolidated and sintered at a pressure and temperature at which they are crystallographically or thermodynamically stable.