Patents by Inventor Purdue Reseach Foundation

Purdue Reseach Foundation has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • CERAMIC-CERAMIC COMPOSITES AND PROCESS THEREFOR, NUCLEAR FUELS FORMED THEREBY, AND NUCLEAR REACTOR SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES OPERATED THEREWITH
    Publication number: 20140183765
    Abstract: A process of producing ceramic-ceramic composites, including but not limited to nuclear fuels, and composites capable of exhibiting increased thermal conductivities. The process includes milling a first ceramic material to produce a powder of spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material, and then co-milling particles of a second ceramic material with the spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material to cause the particles of the second ceramic material to form a coating on the spheroidized particles of the first material. The spheroidized particles coated with the particles of the second ceramic material are then compacted and sintered to form the ceramic-ceramic composite, in which the second ceramic material forms a continuous phase completely surrounding the spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicants: The Texas A&M University System, Purdue Reseach Foundation
    Inventors: Purdue Reseach Foundation, The Texas A&M University System