Abstract: A solid heat storage material includes a bonding of vanadium dioxide and a highly thermally conductive substance higher in thermal conductivity than the vanadium dioxide, the highly thermally conductive substance being dispersed in the vanadium dioxide, the vanadium dioxide and the highly thermally conductive substance adhering closely and densely together, the highly thermally conductive substance having a volume fraction of 0.03 or more.

Abstract: [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] To provide a solid heat storage material that is made of a VO2-based inorganic material, is easy to sinter, has a high latent heat storage capacity, and can be suitably used as a phase change solid heat storage material, and a method of manufacturing the same. [SOLUTION] A powder material for sintering of a first aspect of the present invention includes vanadium and oxygen and includes a vanadium oxide represented by the chemical formula VO2 and at least one other type of vanadium oxide, in which, when the molar ratio of V and O in all the powder is expressed as 1:(2+d), d is in the range of 0<d<0.5.

Abstract: A process for producing a ceramic sinter or inorganic film in which anisotropic particles or anisotropic crystals have been oriented; or a process for producing a bonded composite material which comprises a base sample and another material tenaciously bonded to a surface of the base. The processes are characterized by imposing a centrifugal force during buming (heating).

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor, a shaft or a sample holder for a centrifugal sintering system, and the present invention relates to a ceramic member for a centrifugal sintering system which is a member consisting of a rotor, a shaft or a sample holder for use in a centrifugal sintering system imparting a centrifugal force field and a temperature field to a molded body of ceramics or metal powder or a ceramic precursor film wherein a rotor for turning a sample holder, a shaft or a sample holder is composed of ceramics, to the ceramic member wherein the rotor which turns the sample holder is composed of conductive silicon carbide ceramics and the rotor alone is selectively caused to self heat by induction heating means to indirectly heat the sample, and to the ceramic member wherein the sample holder is composed of a material with a large dielectric loss and the sample holder alone is selectively heated using dielectric heating means to indirectly heat the sample.

Abstract: A process for producing a ceramic sinter or inorganic film in which anisotropic particles or anisotropic crystals have been oriented; or a process for producing a bonded composite material which comprises a base sample and another material tenaciously bonded to a surface of the base. The processes are characterized by imposing a centrifugal force during buming (heating).

Abstract: It is an object to provide a method of manufacturing a porous medium having a grading porous structure, and there are provided a method of manufacturing a porous medium having a grading porous structure, comprising the steps of installing a sample consisting of a powder compact or a porous body in a rotating body, and heating the sample while applying a centrifugal force to the sample through high-speed rotation of the rotating body to produce a porous medium having a grading porous structure in which the pore size and the porosity change gradually by using the pressure grading in the sample arising through the centrifugal force, and such a method wherein the pore size and the porosity of the sample are predicted based on a linear shrinkage factor calculated through the equation: