Abstract: Stable high strength porous metal oxide articles suitable, for example, for use as catalyst supports, are prepared by predisposing fine metal oxide particles in water followed by fine dispersion under high shear, and subjecting the dispersion to a change in pH to coagulate the metal oxide particles and form a moldable viscoelastic composition. The moldings are substantially free of impurity atoms.

Abstract: Stable high strength porous metal oxide articles suitable, for example, for use as catalyst supports, are prepared by predisposing fine metal oxide particles in water followed by fine dispersion under high shear, and subjecting the dispersion to a change in pH to coagulate the metal oxide particles and form a moldable viscoelastic composition. The moldings are substantially free of impurity atoms.

Abstract: Stable high strength porous metal oxide articles suitable, for example, for use as catalyst supports, are prepared by predisposing fine metal oxide particles in water followed by fine dispersion under high shear, and subjecting the dispersion to a change in pH to coagulate the metal oxide particles and form a moldable viscoelastic composition. The moldings are substantially free of impurity atoms.

Abstract: Insulation powders having high thermal insulation value contain at least one silica with a BET surface area of from 130-1200 m2/g and a D(50) of less than 60 ?m, and a fiber material having a fiber diameter of 1-50 ?m.

Abstract: Stable high strength porous metal oxide articles suitable, for example, for use as catalyst supports, are prepared by predisposing fine metal oxide particles in water followed by fine dispersion under high shear, and subjecting the dispersion to a change in pH to coagulate the metal oxide particles and form a moldable viscoelastic composition. The moldings are substantially free of impurity atoms.

Abstract: Stable high strength porous metal oxide articles suitable, for example, for use as catalyst supports, are prepared by predisposing fine metal oxide particles in water followed by fine dispersion under high shear, and subjecting the dispersion to a change in pH to coagulate the metal oxide particles and form a moldable viscoelastic composition. The moldings are substantially free of impurity atoms.

Abstract: A silica glass crucible is produced by a) providing a porous amorphous silica glass green body, which is infiltrated with at least one substance that promotes crystallization of a silica glass crucible, b) drying the infiltrated silica glass green body, c) filling the green body with a metal or semimetal, and d) heating the filled green body for a period of from 1 h to 1000 h to a temperature of from 900 to 2000° C. to form at least a portion of silica crystalline phase. The process may be continued by further heating to melt the metal or semimetal and pulling a single crystal from the melt.

Abstract: Use of a flame hydrolysis apparatus for preparing fumed silica particles or a plasma torch apparatus for sintering fumed silica particles to fused silica particles is capable of producing highly pure silica with non-silicon metal impurities less than 500 pb, when at least an inner nozzle is constructed of a silicon-containing material having a low level of non-silicon metal impurities. Preferably, all surfaces in the respective apparatus which contact silica are of similar construction. The silica contains a low level of impurities as produced, without requiring further purification.

Abstract: A method for the production of a homogenous, shaped SiO2 body of near net shape wherein amorphous SiO2 particles comprising relatively large amorphous SiO2 particles and relatively small amorphous SiO2 particles are electrophoretically deposited from an aqueous dispersion on an electrically nonconductive membrane, the shape and geometry of which correspond to the shaped SiO2 body to be produced, wherein the membrane has an average pore size which is larger than the average particle size of the smaller amorphous SiO2 particles.

Abstract: A silica glass crucible is produced by

Abstract: A process for producing an SiO2 shaped body which is vitrified in a partial region or completely, in which process an amorphous, porous SiO2 preform is sintered or vitrified by contactless heating by means of laser radiation, by means of which contamination of the SiO2 shaped body with foreign atoms is avoided.