Abstract: A ceramic material includes zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) doped with scandium (Sc) ions. ZTA can be further doped with other metal ions, and the other metal ions include cobalt (Co) ions, chromium (Cr) ions, zinc (Zn) ions, titanium (Ti) ions, manganese (Mn) ions, nickel (Ni) ions, or a combination thereof. The ceramic material can be used as a ceramic object, such as a wire bonding capillary, a heat dissipation plate, a denture tooth, orthopedic implants, direct bonded copper, or a high-temperature co-fired ceramic.

Abstract: Nanocomposite silicon and carbon compositions. These compositions can be made from polymer derived ceramics, and in particular, polysilocarb precursors. The nanocomposite can have non-voids or be nano-void free and can form larger macro-structures and macro-composite structures. The nanocomposite can contain free carbon domains in an amorphous SiOC matrix.

Abstract: Organosilicon chemistry, polymer derived ceramic materials, and methods. Such materials and methods for making polysilocarb (SiOC) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials having 3-nines, 4-nines, 6-nines and greater purity. Processes and articles utilizing such high purity SiOC and SiC.

Abstract: A method for producing a converter element, a converter element and a light emitting device are disclosed. In an embodiment a method for producing a converter element providing at least one phosphor and a liquid polysiloxane resin and preparing a cured polysiloxane powder from a first fraction of the liquid polysiloxane resin. The method further includes preparing a mixture including the at least one phosphor, the cured polysiloxane powder and a second fraction of the liquid polysiloxane resin, casting and curing the mixture to a cured layer and singulating the cured layer.

Abstract: A novel silicon material is provided. An MSix-containing silicon material contains MSix (M is at least one element selected from the group 3 to 9 elements. 1/3?x?3) in a silicon matrix.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an embedding material composition for casting that makes it possible to conduct a favorable casting in the case where casting is conducted using a resin pattern that is different from a conventional wax pattern in disappearance temperature and disappearance behaviors through “rapid heating” excellent in treatment efficiency. The present invention relates to an embedding material composition for casting not using a heat-expandable refractory material as a main component, comprising: a binder; and a non-heat-expandable refractory material having an average particle diameter of 5 to 20 ?m as main components, in which a content of the binder is 25 to 40 parts by mass and a content of the non-heat-expandable refractory material is 60 to 75 parts by mass in the case where the total amount of the main components is 100 parts by mass, and the present invention also relates to a casting process using the embedding material composition for casting.

Abstract: A dielectric composition containing a crystalline phase represented by a general formula of Bi12SiO20 and a crystalline phase represented by a general formula of Bi2SiO5 as the main components. The dielectric composition contains preferably 5 mass % to 99 mass % of the Bi2SiO5 crystalline phase, and more preferably 30 mass % to 99 mass %.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a biocompatible ceramic material comprising Baghdadite (Ca3ZrSi2O9), and a method for its preparation. Preferably the Baghdadite is synthetically prepared. The present invention also relates to an implantable medical device comprising biocompatible Baghdadite, and a method for its production. The present invention further relates to a method for improving the long term stability of an implantable medical device and an implantable drug delivery device comprising Baghdadite. Further, the present invention relates to the use of comprising biocompatible Baghdadite in the regeneration or resurfacing of tissue.

Abstract: The invention provides an artificial marble and a method for manufacturing the artificial marble. The artificial marble is manufactured using raw materials such as silica, fluorspar and one or more waste materials. The one or more waste materials are selected from a group that includes limestone, clay, magnesite and phosphate.

Abstract: A matrix for a thermostructural fibrous composite material obtained by geopolymer synthesis based on nanocrystalline cristobalite resulting from the crystallization of geopolymer micelles of potassium polysiloxonate K—(Si—O—Si—O)n. The nanocrystalline cristobalite is in the form of micelles and/or microspheres having dimensions of less than 1 micron, preferably of less than 500 nanometers, connected together by an amorphous phase. The matrix contains at least 85 percent by weight of oxide SiO2 with at most 15%, preferably at most 10%, by weight of alkali metal oxide K2O. The nanocrystalline cristobalite results from the crystallization of geopolymer micelles of potassium polysiloxonate by a heat treatment at a temperature preferably between 600° C. and 800° C., for a time of less than 30 minutes. The fibrous composite material impregnated with this matrix is thermostructural.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous, silicate, ceramic body, possibly with different colors, with a first density, which can be sintered into a silicate, ceramic body with a second density, wherein the ratio of the first density to the second density is 2/5 to 98/100, and the three-point bending strength of the porous, silicate ceramic body with a first density, measured according to ISO 6872, amounts to 25 to 180 MPa.

Abstract: There are provided a carbon fiber composite material having higher strength than conventional carbon fiber composite materials, and a brake member, a structural member for semiconductor, a heat resistant panel and a heat sink, all of which use this carbon fiber composite material. The carbon fiber composite material is obtained by mixing carbon fiber with a resin, subsequently molding the mixture and carbonizing the molded product, and subjecting the resultant carbonized product to melt impregnation with silicon, in which the lattice spacing d002 of the carbon (002) plane of the carbon fiber as measured by an X-ray diffraction method is 3.36 to 3.43. A brake member, a structural member for semiconductor, a heat resistant panel and a heat sink, all of which use this carbon fiber composite material, are provided. The carbon fiber is preferably a carbon fiber obtained by calcining a pitch-derived precursor.

Abstract: Disclosed and claimed herein are hybrid silica aerogels containing non-polymeric, functional organic materials covalently bonded at one or both ends to the silica network of the aerogels through a C—Si bond between a carbon atom of the organic material and a silicon atom of the aerogel network. Methods of their preparation are also disclosed.

Abstract: Ceramic nanocomposites and methods for manufacturing the ceramic nanocomposites are disclosed. One method includes introducing to a fired green ceramic body having a ceramic matrix submicron particles having coefficient of thermal expansion lower than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the ceramic matrix and at least one type of location-controlling dopant at an amount that is sufficient to cover the majority of the ceramic matrix grain boundaries. One ceramic nanocomposite includes a ceramic matrix with submicron particles dispersed in the ceramic matrix, the submicron particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion lower than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the ceramic matrix and at least one dopant that covers the majority of the ceramic matrix grain boundaries, at a concentration that does not exceed the bulk solubility limit of the dopant in the ceramic matrix at the ceramic nanocomposite sintering temperature.

Abstract: A heat-reactive resist material contains copper oxide, and silicon or silicon oxide, and is formed so that the content of silicon or silicon oxide in the heat-reactive resist material is 4.0 mol % or more less than 10.0 mol % in terms of mole of silicon. A heat-reactive resist layer is formed using the heat-reactive resist material, is exposed, and then, is developed with a developing solution. Using the obtained heat-reactive resist layer as a mask, dry etching is performed on a substrate with a fluorocarbon to manufacture a mold having a concavo-convex shape on the substrate surface. At this point, it is possible to control a fine pattern comprised of the concavo-convex shape.

Abstract: The invention provides novel paving stones and construction block composite materials and methods for preparation thereof. The paving stones and construction block composite materials can be readily produced from widely available, low cost precursor materials by a production process that involves compacting in a mold that is suitable for large-scale production. The precursor materials include calcium silicate, for example, wollastonite, and particulate filler materials which can comprise silicon dioxide-rich materials. Additives can include calcium carbonate-rich and magnesium carbonate-rich materials. Various additives can be used to fine-tune the physical appearance and mechanical properties of the composite material, such as colorants such as particles of colored materials, such as, and pigments (e.g., black iron oxide, cobalt oxide and chromium oxide).

Abstract: Disclosed is a solid oxide fuel cell which includes an inner electrode, a solid electrolyte, and an outer electrode, each being sequentially laminated on the surface of a porous support. The porous support contains forsterite, and further has a strontium element concentration of 0.02 mass % to 1 mass % both inclusive in terms of SrO based on the mass of the forsterite.

Abstract: Silicon (Si) based materials and methods of making those materials. More specifically, methods and materials having silicon, oxygen and carbon that form filled and unfilled plastic materials and filled and unfilled ceramics.

Abstract: The preparation and use of polysilazane ceramic precursor polymer to make ceramic membranes to purify small molecules, such as hydrogen, for the purpose of isolating the gas and manipulating its potential as an alternative fuel source composition are described. The disclosed materials are composed of an amorphous form of SixNy, derived from a SixNyHz precursor, with channels interlaced throughout the composition. These channels are formed during the release of H2 gas from the SixNyHz material formed when the SixNyHz material is heated.

Abstract: An article which includes a structure of a ceramic material that has a composition SiOxMzCy, where Si is silicon, O is oxygen, M is at least one metal and C is carbon and wherein x<2, y>0 and z<1 and x and z are non-zero.

Abstract: An adhesive for inorganic fibers including SiO2, CaO and Al2O3 within a range excluding the range I defined by the following points A, 8, 18, 19 and 20 in the SiO2—Al2O3—CaO state diagram shown in FIG. 1, and including no zeolite. Point A: SiO2 (0%), Al2O3 (100%), CaO (0%): Point 8: SiO2 (20.8%), Al2O3 (79.2%), CaO (0%): Point 18: SiO2 (46.3%), Al2O3 (35.8%), CaO (17.9%): Point 19: SiO2 (31.5%), Al2O3 (53.6%), CaO (14.9%): Point 20: SiO2 (25.2%), Al2O3 (57.5%), CaO (17.3%).

Abstract: A particle formed of silica and carbon having a low impurity content and an excellent reactivity is provided. Also provided is a method of producing a silica and carbon-containing material including: (B) a carbon mixing step of mixing an aqueous alkali silicate solution having a silicon concentration within the liquid portion of at least 10 wt % with carbon so as to obtain a carbon-containing aqueous alkali silicate solution; and (C) a silica recovery step of mixing the carbon-containing aqueous alkali silicate solution with a mineral acid so as to cause carbon and silicon within the liquid portion to precipitate as particles formed of silica and carbon and thus obtaining a particle-containing liquid substance, then solid-liquid separating the liquid substance so as to obtain a solid portion of a silica and carbon-containing material which is an assembly of particles formed of silica and carbon and a liquid portion containing impurities.

Abstract: A glass ceramic composition includes a SrZrO3 ceramic, a Li2O—MgO—ZnO—B2O3—SiO2-based glass, Mg2SiO4 in an amount of about 5 to 40 weight percent, and a SrTiO3 ceramic in an amount in the range of about 0 to about 6 weight percent of the total. The Li2O—MgO—ZnO—B2O3—SiO2-based glass accounts for about 1 to about 12 weight percent of the total.

Abstract: A method of treating a preceramic material includes providing a preceramic polycarbosilane or polycarbosiloxane material that includes a moiety Si—O—M, where Si is silicon, O is oxygen and M is at least one metal, and thermally converting the preceramic polycarbosilane or polycarbosiloxane that includes the moiety Si—O—M material into a ceramic material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silicon part and a method of producing the silicon part. The silicon part is not worn quickly and particle formation is suppressed even if it is positioned in the reaction chamber of a plasma etching apparatus. The silicon part for the plasma etching apparatus is made of any one selected from a group consisting of poly-crystalline silicon, mono-like silicon, and single-crystalline silicon. Also, the silicon part includes boron as a dopant in a range from 1×1018 atoms/cc or higher to 1×1020 atoms/cc or lower.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a biocompatible ceramic material comprising Sr, Mg or Ba doped Hardystonite (Ca2ZnSi2O7), and a method for its synthetic preparation. The present invention also relates to an implantable medical device comprising biocompatible doped Hardystonite, and a method for its production. The present invention further relates to a method for improving the long term stability of an implantable medical device and an implantable drug delivery device comprising doped Hardystonite. Further, the present invention relates to the use of comprising biocompatible doped Hardystonite in the regeneration or resurfacing of tissue.

Abstract: A process for the synthesis of a bioceramic composition comprising calcium phosphosilicate (CPS, Ca10(PO4)4(SiO4)2), the process comprising: providing calcium or a calcium-containing compound, a phosphorus-containing compound and a silicon-containing compound; and forming a precipitate by reacting the compounds in an aqueous phase at an alkali pH.

Abstract: A thin-film spectrally selective coating for receiver tube of vacuumed type for use in thermodynamic solar installations and operating both at medium temperature (up to 400° C.) and at high temperature (up to 550° C.), coating where the optically absorbing layer is a multilayer of cermet material of type: WyN—AlNx or MoyN—AlNx, material prepared with reactive co-sputtering technique from an Al target and a W or Mo target, process conducted under a transition regimen, under PFM (Plasma Emission Monitoring) or CVM (Cathode Voltage Monitoring) monitoring for the sole Al target, with inletting near the Al target of a N2 amount adequate for obtainment of a high-transparency, high growth rate sub-stoichiometric ceramic AlN and with inletting near the W or Mo target of a N2 amount adequate for obtainment of the sole W2N or Mo2N phase, phase very stable at high temperature, such as to make the cermet material as close as possible to the formulation W2N—AlNx or Mo2N—AlNx (with x comprised between 0.90 and 1.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing ceramic particles, such as proppants, that have at least 10 percent total porosity. The process includes forming a particle precursor that includes 5 percent to 30 percent of a first ceramic material and at least 40 percent of a second ceramic material. The sintering temperature of the first ceramic material may be lower than the sintering temperature of a second ceramic material. Heating the precursor to a maximum temperature above the sintering temperature of the first material and below the sintering temperature of the second material. Also disclosed is a ceramic article that has a particular combination of chemistry and alumina crystalline phase.

Abstract: A porous ceramic (honeycomb) structure skin coating and a method of producing a porous ceramic structure skin coating which provides a hardshell, strong, acid- and alkali-resistant, chip-resistant ceramic honeycomb structure coating which resists pollution control catalyst from being absorbed into the skin coating.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition having a thermoset polymer and a plurality of hollow microsphere homogenously dispersed in the composition. The polymer is a cyanate ester thermoset, a phthalonitrile thermoset, a crosslinked acetylene thermoset, or a hydrosilation thermoset. Also disclosed herein is a method of: providing a thermosetting compound; adding microspheres to the thermosetting compound; and mixing the thermosetting compound while initiating crosslinking of the thermosetting compound.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition having a thermoset polymer and a plurality of hollow microsphere homogenously dispersed in the composition. The polymer is a cyanate ester thermoset, a phthalonitrile thermoset, a crosslinked acetylene thermoset, or a hydrosilation thermoset. Also disclosed herein is a method of: providing a thermosetting compound; adding microspheres to the thermosetting compound; and mixing the thermosetting compound while initiating crosslinking of the thermosetting compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a proton conducting thin film having a dense nanometric ceramic material with a relative density of at least about 90% and a grain size of less than about 30 nm, wherein the proton conducting thin film is capable of operating at temperatures of less than about 100° C. in the presence of water vapor. The present invention also provides an electrochemical device using the proton conducting thin film, and a method of making the proton conducting thin film.

Abstract: Provided is a glass ceramic composition which can be fired at a temperature of 1000° C. or lower, and a sintered body of which has a low relative permittivity and a high Q value, stable temperature characteristic and high reliability, and is excellent in plating solution resistance. The glass ceramic composition provides a low dielectric constant layer for inclusion in a laminate glass ceramic substrate in a ceramic multilayer module. It includes a first ceramic having forsterite as the main constituent, a second ceramic having at least one of SrTiO3 and TiO2 as the main constituent, a third ceramic having BaZrO3 as the main constituent, a fourth ceramic having at least one of ZrO2 and MnO as the main constituent, and 3 weight % or more of a borosilicate glass containing Li2O, MgO, B2O3, SiO2 and ZnO, which further contains an additive constituent including at least one of CaO and SrO.

Abstract: Circuit modules and methods of construction thereof that contain composite meta-material dielectric bodies that have high effective values of real permittivity but which minimize reflective losses, through the use of host dielectric (organic or ceramic), materials having relative permittivities substantially less than ceramic dielectric inclusions embedded therein. The composite meta-material bodies permit reductions in physical lengths of electrically conducting elements such as antenna element(s) without adversely impacting radiation efficiency. The meta-material structure may additionally provide frequency band filtering functions that would normally be provided by other components typically found in an RF front-end.

Abstract: Disclosed are cordierite bodies having relatively low thermal mass with good mechanical strength. The porous cordierite bodies generally include a primary cordierite ceramic phase as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods for making and using the cordierite bodies.

Abstract: A ceramic foam filter for molten aluminum alloys comprising an alumina silicate rich core and a boron glass shell and a chemical composition comprising: 20-70 wt % Al2O3, 20-60 wt % SiO2, 0-10 wt % CaO, 0-10 wt %; MgO and 2-20 wt % B2O3.

Abstract: To obtain a ceramic fiber-reinforced composite material, by melt-infiltrating a composite material substrate obtained by forming ceramic fibers into a composite with a matrix formed of an inorganic substance, with an alloy having a composition that is constituted by a disilicate of at least one or more transition metal among transition metals that belong to Group 3A, Group 4A or Group 5A of the Periodic Table and silicon as the remainder, and having the silicon content ratio of 66.7 at % or more.

Abstract: An insulating film that does not contain hydrogen or free fluorine and has good film properties is provided. A silicon oxynitride film includes silicon, nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine, wherein the elemental percentage (N+O+F)/Si of the total (N+O+F) of nitrogen (N), oxygen (0), and fluorine (F) to silicon (Si) is in a range of 1.93 to 1.48, and in the silicon oxynitride film, an elemental percentage of silicon ranges from 0.34 to 0.41, an elemental percentage of nitrogen ranges from 0.10 to 0.22, an elemental percentage of oxygen ranges from 0.14 to 0.38, and an elemental percentage of fluorine ranges from 0.17 to 0.24. The film can be formed on a substrate by inductive coupling type plasma CVD whereby a plasma is generated by inductive coupling using a silicon tetrafluoride gas, a nitrogen gas, and an oxygen gas as a material gas.

Abstract: A method of treating a preceramic material includes modifying a moiety Si—O—R of a polycarbosilane material with at least one metal (M), where Si is silicon, O is oxygen and R includes an alkyl or aryl moiety, by reaction to substitute R with M to produce a preceramic polycarbosilane or polycarbosiloxane material that includes a moiety Si—O-M.

Abstract: The disclosure provides novel graphene-reinforced ceramic composites and methods for making such composite materials.

Abstract: A method of making a press-moldable glass, including melting starting materials, forming a melt, and annealing a formed glass, wherein the melt has a composition such that, (1) when rapidly cooled to room temperature, it becomes glass that has a scattering coefficient of less than 0.005 cm?1 at wavelengths of from 400 to 2,500 nm or comprises crystals with a volumetric ratio of less than 10?6, and (2) when maintained for three hours at a temperature 10° C. higher than the glass transition temperature, maintained for 10 min at a temperature yielding a viscosity of 104.5 to 103.5 dPa·s, and then rapidly cooled to room temperature, (3) the resulting glass has (a) a scattering coefficient of at least one wavelength from 400 to 2,500 nm of greater than 0.01 cm?1 or (b) crystals with a volumetric ratio of greater than 10?5. A temperature for annealing is lower than for glass transition.

Abstract: Provided are an amorphous polyamide resin composition having high transparency, and is excellent in heat resistance and stiffness, and a molded product thereof. The glass filler contains, expressed in terms of oxides by mass %, 68 to 74% of silicon dioxide (SiO2), 2 to 5% of aluminum oxide (Al2O3), 2 to 5% of boron oxide (B2O3), 2 to 10% of calcium oxide (CaO), 0 to 5% of zinc oxide (ZnO), 0 to 5% of strontium oxide (SrO), 0 to 1% of barium oxide (BaO), 1 to 5% of magnesium oxide (MgO), 0 to 5% of lithium oxide (Li2O), 5 to 12% of sodium oxide (Na2O), and 0 to 10% of potassium oxide (K2O), where a total amount of lithium oxide (Li2O), sodium oxide (Na2O), and potassium oxide (K2O) is 8 to 12%.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for manufacturing silicon-containing particles characterized by preparing a uniform phase comprising a curable composition that includes a silicon-containing compound having in one molecule one or more reactive functional groups per 50 silicon atoms and an oil that does not participate in curing of the composition, then curing the composition, and causing phase separation from the oil for obtaining the silicon-containing particles; and to silicon-containing particles obtained by the above method. The method provides silicon-containing particles of an extremely small diameter in a simple process without the use of surfactants. And the silicon-containing particles possess excellent dispersibility in oil and a high degree of ceramification by baking.

Abstract: Lithium silicate materials are described which can be easily processed by machining to dental products without undue wear of the tools.

Abstract: There is provided a ceramic member which is a sintered body containing enstatite and boron nitride as constituents, in which boron nitride is oriented in a single direction, a probe holder formed using the ceramic member, and a manufacturing method of the ceramic member. In the ceramic member, an index of orientation degree is not less than 0.8. In so doing, it is possible to provide a ceramic member which has a free machining property, a coefficient of thermal expansion which is close to that of silicon, and high strength, and a probe holder which is formed using the ceramic member, and a manufacturing method of the ceramic member.

Abstract: There is provided a dielectric composition including: a base powder; a first accessory component including a content (x) of 0.1 to 1.0 at % of an oxide or a carbonate including transition metals, based on 100 moles of the base powder; a second accessory component including a content (y) of 0.01 to 5.0 at % of an oxide or a carbonate including a fixed valence acceptor element, based on 100 moles of the base powder; a third accessory component including an oxide or a carbonate including a donor element; and a fourth accessory component including a sintering aid.

Abstract: Lanthanum containing cordierite bodies are provided that exhibit high strength, little or no microcracking, and a high thermal shock resistance. Improved maintenance of low microcracking and high strength is obtained even after exposure to high temperatures.

Abstract: Provided is a sliding member which includes a plurality of open pores in a sliding surface, which each comprises one or more opening portions having a circularity of 0.24 or more and a circle equivalent diameter of 10 ?m to 150 ?m. A ratio of the number of open pores having the overlapping degree of 10% or more between the opening portions is 3% or less. Another sliding member includes a plurality of open pores in a sliding surface, which each comprises one or more opening portions having a circularity of 0.24 or more and a circle equivalent diameter of not less than 10 ?m nor more than 78 ?m. A coefficient of variation of the opening portions satisfies the following equation: 1.03??V/X?1.51 where ?V is a standard deviation of circle equivalent diameters, and X is an average value of the circle equivalent diameters. A mechanical seal ring, a mechanical seal and a faucet valve each using the sliding member are also provided.

Abstract: A wear resistant member formed of ceramic sintered body mainly composed of silicon nitride, the ceramic sintered body containing 10 to 3500 ppm of an Fe component in terms of Fe element, more than 1000 ppm to 2000 ppm of a Ca component in terms of Ca element, and 1 to 2000 ppm of a Mg component in terms of Mg element, wherein a ?-phase ratio of silicon nitride crystal grains is 95% or more, a maximum longer diameter of the silicon nitride crystal grains is 40 ?m or less, Ca component existing in grain boundary phase is not detected by XRD (X-ray Diffraction method), and each of dispersions in Vickers hardness, fracture toughness and density of the wear resistant member is within a range of ±10%. According to this structure, there can be obtained a wear resistant member comprising a ceramic sintered body improved in grinding-work property in addition to an excellent wear resistant property.