Abstract:
A method of making elongated abrasive particles includes five steps. Step 1) includes providing a mold having parallel linear grooves, partially interrupted at predetermined intervals by transverse obstructions. Step 2) includes filling the parallel linear grooves with a flowable abrasive particle precursor composition. Step 3) includes at least partially drying the flowable abrasive particle precursor composition to form an at least partially dried abrasive particle precursor composition. Step 4) includes separating that composition from the mold, thereby forming elongated precursor abrasive particles having a shape corresponding to portions of the parallel linear grooves disposed between the transverse obstructions. At least one of the first and second opposite ends of the elongated precursor abrasive particles comprises both a molded portion and a fractured portion. Step 5) converts the elongated precursor abrasive particles into elongated abrasive particles. Elongated abrasive particles preparable by the method and abrasive articles containing them are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A method of making shaped ceramic abrasive particles includes cutting a layer of ceramic precursor material using a laser beam and forming shaped ceramic precursor particles. Further thermal processing provides shaped ceramic abrasive particles. Shaped ceramic abrasive particles producible by the methods and abrasive articles containing them are also disclosed.
Abstract:
An abrasive article comprising a plurality of shaped abrasive particles (20), each shaped abrasive particle comprising a microparticulate layer disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of the abrasive particles, wherein the microparticulate layer comprises microparticles (22) dispersed in a microparticle binder and the abrasive particles are shaped abrasive particles and a binder in which the plurality of shaped abrasive particles are dispersed.
Abstract:
The formed ceramic abrasive particle includes a plurality of ceramic oxides. The particle further includes a first plurality of oxides, a second plurality of oxides, or a mixture thereof. The first plurality of oxides includes an oxide of yttrium, praseodymium, samarium, ytterbium, neodymium, lanthanum, gadolinium, dysprosium, erbium, or a combination thereof. The second plurality of oxides includes an oxide of iron, magnesium, zinc, silicon, cobalt, nickel, zirconium, hafnium, chromium, cerium, titanium, or a combination thereof. The formed ceramic abrasive particle further includes a plurality of edges, each edge having a length independently ranging from about 0.1 µm to about 5000 µm. The formed ceramic abrasive particle further includes a tip defined by a junction of at least two of the edges, the tip can have a radius of curvature ranging from about 0.5 µm to about 80 µm.
Abstract:
Precursor alpha alumina abrasive particles in a mold are subjected to a drying process that cracks or fractures at least a majority of the precursor abrasive particles into at least two pieces thereby producing abrasive shards having a smaller size than the mold cavity from which they were made. The smaller abrasive shards, once formed, could be reassembled like jigsaw puzzle pieces to reproduce the original cavity shape of the mold from which they were made. The cracking or fracturing of the precursor abrasive particles is believed to occur by ensuring that the surface tension of the abrasive dispersion to the walls of the mold is greater than the internal attractive forces of the abrasive dispersion as the abrasive dispersion is dried within the mold cavity.
Abstract:
A magnetizable abrasive particle is presented. The magnetizable abrasive particle has a ceramic particle having an outer surface. The magnetizable abrasive particle also has a magnetic coating layer applied to the outer surface of the ceramic particle prior to sintering. The sintered magnetizable particle is responsive to a magnetic field.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a shaped abrasive particle. The shaped abrasive particle includes a plurality of polygonal faces bound by respective polygonal perimeters and joined by at least one edge or sidewall to form the shaped abrasive particle. The shaped abrasive particle further includes a serration configured to generate a fracture along a fracture plane extending at least through the serration.
Abstract:
Various embodiments disclosed relate to shaped abrasive particles having sharp tips, methods of making the shaped abrasive particles, methods of abrading a substrate with the shaped abrasive particles, and coated abrasive articles including the shaped abrasive particles. The shaped abrasive particle includes a ceramic, has a polygonal cross-sectional shape along a longitudinal axis of the shaped abrasive particle, and at least one tip of the shaped abrasive particle has a radius of curvature of less than or equal to about 19.2 microns.
Abstract:
An elongate shaped abrasive particle comprises an elongate shaped ceramic body having opposed first and second ends joined to each other by at least two longitudinal sidewalls. At least one of the at least two longitudinal sidewalls is concave along its length. At least one of the first and second ends is a fractured surface. Methods of making elongate shaped abrasive particles and abrasive articles including them are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Abrasive particles comprising shaped abrasive particles each having a sloping sidewall, each of the shaped abrasive particles comprising alpha alumina and having a first face and a second face separated by a thickness, t. The shaped abrasive particles further comprising either: a draft angle α between the second face and the sloping sidewall, and the draft angle α is between about 95 degrees to about 130 degrees, or the sloping sidewall having a radius, R, between the first face and the second face and the radius, R, is between about 0.5 to about 2 times the thickness, t.