Abstract: Glasses that undergo rapid ion exchange. The glasses comprise SiO2, Al2O3, P2O5, Na2O, K2O, and, in some embodiments, at least one of MgO and ZnO. The glass may, for example, be ion exchanged in a molten KNO3 salt bath in less than 1 hour at temperatures in a range from about 370° C. to about 390° C. to achieve a depth of surface compressive layer of greater than about 45 microns, or in a range from about 0.05t to about 0.22t, where t is the thickness of the glass. The glasses are fusion formable and, in some embodiments, compatible with zircon.

Abstract: A strengthened glass having a stress profile that differs from error-function and parabolic profiles. Stress relaxation and thermal annealing/diffusion effects, which occur at longer ion exchange and/or anneal times increase the depth of compression of the surface layer. A method of achieving these effects is also provided.

Abstract: A component carrier includes a stack having at least one electrically conductive layer structure and at least one electrically insulating layer structure; a barrier structure; and a component. The component has at least one pad embedded in the stack and/or in the barrier structure. At least a portion of one of the electrically conductive layer structure and the at least one pad includes copper in contact with the barrier structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide that is excellent not only in thermal conductivity but also in chemical resistance, water resistance, and electrical insulation, that has a good kneadability (miscibility) into resins, and that enables to produce a material or an article, such as a resin composition, which is excellent in shapability. The present invention is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide obtained by firing a starting material mixture containing an aluminum starting material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a workpiece made of glass ceramics, and to the workpiece obtainable by the process according to the invention. Further, the invention relates to the use of the workpiece obtained as a dental restoration, and to a process allowing the translucency of a workpiece to be controlled.

Abstract: A black ?-spodumene glass ceramic is provided. The glass ceramic includes ?-spodumene as a primary crystal phase and gahnite as a minor crystal phase. The glass ceramic is characterized by the color coordinates: L*: 20.0 to 40.0, a*: ?1.0 to 0.5, and b*: ?5.0 to 1.0. The glass ceramic may be ion exchanged. Methods for producing the glass ceramic are also provided.

Abstract: A black ?-spodumene glass ceramic is provided. The glass ceramic includes ?-spodumene as a primary crystal phase and gahnite as a minor crystal phase. The glass ceramic is characterized by the color coordinates: L*: 20.0 to 40.0, a*: ?1.0 to 0.5, and b*: ?5.0 to 1.0. The glass ceramic may be ion exchanged. Methods for producing the glass ceramic are also provided.

Abstract: The present specification relates to an electrolyte of a solid oxide fuel cell, a solid oxide fuel cell including the same, a composition for the electrolyte, and a method for preparing the electrolyte.

Abstract: Modelling material which includes (a) at least one radically polymerizable monomer, (b) at least one initiator for the radical polymerization and (c) at least one inert component. The inert component (c) is soluble in the polymer formed by polymerization of the monomer (a), wherein the solubility of component (c) decreases as the temperature increases, with the result that a phase separation takes place above a particular temperature. The material is suitable in particular for the production of models of dental restorations for investment casting processes.

Abstract: The prism coupling methods disclosed herein are directed to determining a stress characteristic of an original IOX article having a buried IOX region with a buried refractive index profile that is problematic in the sense that it prevents the original IOX article from being measured using a prism coupler system. The methods include modifying the buried IOX region of the original IOX article in a surface portion of the buried IOX region to form a modified IOX article having an unburied refractive index profile that allows the modified IOX article to be measured using a prism coupler. The methods also include measuring a mode spectrum of the modified IOX article using the prism coupler system. The methods further include determining one or more stress characteristic of the original IOX article from the mode spectrum of the modified IOX article.

Abstract: A black lithium silicate glass ceramic is provided. The glass ceramic includes lithium silicate as a primary crystal phase and at least one of petalite, ?-quartz, ?-spodumene, cristobalite, and lithium phosphate as a secondary crystal phase. The glass ceramic is characterized by the color coordinates: L*: 20.0 to 40.0, a*: ?1.0 to 1.0, and b*: ?5.0 to 2.0. The glass ceramic may be ion exchanged. Methods for producing the glass ceramic are also provided.

Abstract: A method of making a hollow container-shaped glass article composed of soda-lime-silica glass includes forming a particulate feedstock comprised of pulverized soda-lime-silica cullet particles into a hollow monolithic glass container preform without melting the cullet particles. The hollow monolithic glass container preform has a container shape that includes a wall defining an interior containment space and an opening to the interior containment space and, upon formation, has a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the soda-lime-silica glass. The hollow monolithic glass container preform is eventually cooled into a hollow, amorphous soda-lime-silica glass article, such as a partially-formed container or a finished container, that retains the previously-established container shape.

Abstract: A cell stack device (1) according to the present invention includes a plurality of cells (3) having a columnar shape; and electrically conductive members (4) interposed between adjacent cells (3) of the plurality of cells (3), and connected to the each adjacent cell (3) with a bonding material (15) having electrically conductive property. The bonding material (15) contains electrically conductive particles and fibrous bodies (16) having electrically insulating properties, and a major axis direction of the fibrous bodies (16) is oriented in a predetermined direction in regions where the electrically conductive members (4) face to the each adjacent cell (3).

Abstract: A low K value, high Q value, low firing dielectric material and method of forming a fired dielectric material. The dielectric material can be fired below 950° C. or below 1100° C., has a K value of less than about 8 at 10-30 GHz and a Q value of greater than 500 or greater than 1000 at 10-30 GHz. The dielectric material includes, before firing a solids portion including 10-95 wt % or 10-99 wt % silica powder and 5-90 wt % or 1-90 wt % glass component. The glass component includes 50-90 mole % SiO2, 5-35 mole % or 0.1-35 mole % B2O3, 0.1-10 mole % or 0.1-25 mole % Al2O3, 0.1-10 mole % K2O, 0.1-10 mole % Na2O, 0.1-20 mole % Li2O, 0.1-30 mole % F. The total amount of Li2O+Na2O+K2O is 0.1-30 mole % of the glass component. The silica powder can be amorphous or crystalline.

Abstract: An insulator composition includes Al2O3 having a particle size of 120 to 500 nm. The insulator composition has a strength of 400 to 740 MPa and a particle size of 1 ?m or less.

Abstract: A white glass container derived from a phase separation phenomenon of a halogen-free glass composition includes a neck portion and a body portion. The glass composition includes as ingredients at least SiO2, P2O5, Al2O3, B2O3, R2O (R?Na or K), MgO, CaO and the like. The neck portion and the body portion respectively have a white multilayer structure formed to successively include a white transparent layer of relatively low white coloration and a white opaque layer of relatively high white coloration from the outer surface side. The contents of P2O5 in the white transparent layer are made smaller than the contents of P2O5 in the white opaque layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lithium silicate glass ceramic, which contains at least lithium disilicate as a crystal phase, and lithium aluminum silicate as further crystal phase. The lithium silicate glass ceramic in its initial composition contains Al2O3 at 1.5 to 3.5 percent by weight, and K2O at 0.6 to 1.8 percent by weight.

Abstract: A transparent component of an electronic device having a nano-crystalline layer is disclosed. The nano-crystalline layer may be formed as a series of layers separated by or interspersed with one or more other layers including a non-crystalline or amorphous material. The series of layers may also be interspersed with one or more anti-reflective layers configured to reduce optical reflections off the transparent component. The nano-crystalline layer may be formed by a deposition process or by an ion-implanting and annealing process to form crystals having a size of less than 10 nanometers. The protective coatings may be utilized on portions of an electronic device, such as a housing or a cover glass, to protect the electronic device from scratching and/or damage caused by impact.

Abstract: Crystallizable glasses, glass-ceramics, IXable glass-ceramics, and IX glass-ceramics are disclosed. The glass-ceramics exhibit ?-spodumene ss as the predominant crystalline phase. These glasses and glass-ceramics, in mole %, include: 60-75 SiO2; 10-18 Al2O3; 5-14 Li2O; and 4.5 B2O3. The glass-ceramics also have a Vickers initiation crack threshold of at least about 25 kgf.

Abstract: Process for the moderately refractory assembly of at least two articles made of silicon carbide-based materials by non-reactive brazing in an oxidizing atmosphere, in which the articles are placed in contact with a non-reactive brazing composition and the assembly formed by the articles and the brazing composition is heated in an oxidizing atmosphere at a brazing temperature sufficient to melt the brazing composition so as to form a moderately refractory joint, wherein the non-reactive brazing composition is a composition A composed of silica (SiO2), alumina (Al2O3) and calcium oxide (CaO), or alternatively a composition B composed of alumina (Al2O3), calcium oxide (Cao) and magnesium oxide (MgO). Brazing suspension, paste comprising a powder of said brazing composition and an organic binder. Refractory joint and assembly.

Abstract: Embodiments of a glass-based article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about 3 millimeters or less (e.g., about 1 millimeter or less), and a stress profile, wherein all points of the stress profile between a thickness range from about 0·t up to 0.3·t and from greater than about 0.7·t up to t, comprise a tangent with a slope having an absolute value greater than about 0.1 MPa/micrometer, are disclosed. In some embodiments, the glass-based article includes a non-zero metal oxide concentration that varies along at least a portion of the thickness (e.g., 0·t to about 0.3·t) and a maximum central tension in the range from about 80 MPa to about 100 MPa. In some embodiments, the concentration of metal oxide or alkali metal oxide decreases from the first surface to a value at a point between the first surface and the second surface and increases from the value to the second surface. The concentration of the metal oxide may be about 0.

Abstract: A transparent, colorless and non-scattering glass-ceramic plate of lithium aluminosilicate type and containing crystals of ?-quartz structure, the chemical composition of which does not contain oxides of arsenic, of antimony and of neodymium, and includes the following constituents within the limits defined below, expressed as weight percentages: SiO2 55-75%; Al2O3 12-25%; Li2O 2-5%; Na2O+K2O 0-<2%; Li2O+Na2O+K2O 0-<7%; CaO 0.3-5%; MgO 0-5%; SrO 0-5%; BaO 0.5-10%; CaO+BaO >1%; ZnO 0-5%; TiO2 ?1.9%; ZrO2 ?3%; TiO2+ZrO2 >3.80%; SnO2 ?0.1%; SnO2/(SnO2+ZrO2+TiO2)<0.1.

Abstract: A method of making active pharmaceutical ingredient particles with surface-modified nanoparticles deposited on the particles' surfaces, the method comprising: providing a plurality of media particles having surfaces with the surface-modified nanoparticles deposited on the surfaces; mixing the plurality of media particles with the active ingredient particles, both of which are in dry form, to provide active ingredient particles having surfaces with the surface-modified nanoparticles deposited on the surfaces; and separating the plurality of media particles from the active ingredient particles having surfaces with the surface-modified nanoparticles deposited on the surfaces is disclosed.

Abstract: Enamel composition, in particular intended for covering a glass pane of a fireplace insert, comprising at least one glass frit, at least one pigment in a content varying from 40 to 65% of the total weight of the enamel, preferably from 45 to 60%, and optionally at least one vehicle or medium, characterized in that the glass frit comprises the following constituents, within the limits defined below, limits included, expressed as percentages by weight of the total weight of the frit: SiO2 45-65%? Al2O3 0-13% B2O3 23-55%? Na2O 0-10% K2O 0-10% Li2O ?0-10%.

Abstract: A device (1) for electromagnetic treatment of fuels by means of an electromagnetic field comprises at least a resonance oscillator module (D, E, F) for generating an electric alternating field, a supply module (B) for supplying an alternating voltage to the at least one resonance oscillator module (D, E, F). The resonance oscillator module (D, E, F) comprises a plurality of oscillating circuits mutually connected, with a plurality of coils (6) and a plurality of capacitors (3, 4). Each coil (6) is formed of precisely one closed winding and each capacitor (3, 4) is connected to two coils (6) in such a way that connection points of the capacitors (3, 4) are distributed along the closed winding and are spaced from one another. Each coil (6) is connected in such a way to at least a further coil (6) that the connected coils (6) have no common capacitor connection.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present technology may include a carbohydrate binder composition. The carbohydrate binder composition may include a carbohydrate, a nitrogen-containing compound, and a catalyst. The catalyst may catalyze a reaction between the carbohydrate and the nitrogen-containing compound. The catalyst may be water soluble in the composition but may become water insoluble after curing the composition.

Abstract: What is achieved is an optical wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer not necessarily requiring the function of adjusting the optical path. A value (?Lmax??Lmin)/L obtained by dividing a difference between a maximum value ?Lmax and a minimum value ?Lmin of ?L in a range of ?40° C. to 80° C. by L is 8×10?6 or less where L represents a length of a crystallized glass (1) at 30° C. and ?L represents a difference between a length (Lt) of the crystallized glass (1) at each of the temperatures and the length (L) thereof at 30° C.

Abstract: The present invention discloses transparent conductive electrodes comprising merged metal nanowires and the method of making the same. The merged nanowire junctions are formed not by pressing the metal nanowires using pressure.

Abstract: A ceramic composition for an injection-molding process for producing a combustion chamber pressure sensor, in particular for producing an insulation punch of a combustion chamber pressure sensor, includes a ceramic component in a proportion of greater than or equal to 50% by weight and a glass component in a proportion of less than or equal to 50% by weight. The ceramic component includes aluminum oxide. The glass component includes silicon dioxide or a silicon dioxide precursor. The ceramic composition further includes an alkaline earth metal oxide or an alkaline earth metal oxide precursor. The ceramic composition allows production of an insulation punch having a particularly good insulation capability. A ceramic injection-molding process includes the ceramic composition.

Abstract: A silicon nitride material is disclosed which has properties beneficial for efficient operation of a corona discharge igniter system in an internal combustion gas engine.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a honeycomb structure and plugged portions. Partition walls of the honeycomb structure are made of a partition wall material including a plurality of aggregates containing silicon carbide or silicon nitride as a main component, and a binding material at a content of 15 to 35 mass %. The binding material is made of a material in which mullite particles as reinforcing particles may be dispersed in cordierite. A thermal expansion coefficient of the partition walls at 40 to 800° C. is 4.2×10?6 1/K or less. When a value of a stress applied to the partition wall material at 900° C. is normalized by the maximum value of the stress applied to the partition wall material, a percentage of a plastic deformation displacement in a total displacement at a normalized stress value of 0.9 is in a range of 0.3 to 10%.

Abstract: An easily-administered technology which demonstrates the intrinsic thermal conductivity improvement effect by addition of non-oxide system compound crystal phase (filler particles) and makes it possible to sufficiently raise the thermal conductivity of a glass-ceramics composite material is provided. In the glass phase which constitutes a glass-ceramics composite material, the quantity of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) component is increased under a condition where at least either of zinc oxide (ZnO) component or magnesium oxide (MgO) component exists in a predetermined quantity or more. Thereby, the unintended reaction between a non-oxide system compound crystal phase and a glass phase can be suppressed, and the intrinsic thermal conductivity improvement effect by addition of non-oxide system compound crystal phase (filler particles) can be demonstrated.

Abstract: A glass-ceramics composite material suitable for a low-temperature firing use, which has high moisture resistance and thermal conductivity, is provided. In the glass-ceramics composite material which contains aluminum nitride (AlN) particles as a filler, even in a case where boron oxide (B2O3) is blended as a flux of a glass phase, by adjusting the composition of raw materials which forms the glass phase to a specific conditions to make the crystal phase which contains boron (B) precipitate at the time of firing of the glass-ceramics composite material.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure mainly composed of cordierite and obtained by forming and firing a forming material containing a layered clay mineral whose layer charge (X) is 0.2<X?2 in addition to the cordierite forming material and an organic binder. A total amount of at least one element selected from a group consisting of sodium, potassium, and calcium contained in the layered clay mineral is set to 0.5% by mass or less in terms of oxide with respect to a total with the cordierite forming material, and a content ratio of the organic binder is set to 5 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass in total of the cordierite forming material and the layered clay mineral.

Abstract: The present invention discloses crystallized silicate-synthetic powder comprising a mullite (3Al2O3.2SiO2) crystalline phase, a anorthite (CaO.Al2O3.2SiO2) crystalline phase, and a corundum (Al2O3) crystalline phase, and discloses a high-strengthened porcelain body containing the above crystallized silicate-synthetic powder and formed by mixing the crystallized silicate-synthetic powder and kaolin mineral.

Abstract: A cover glass includes a soda lime silica glass including SiO2, MgO, CaO, Na2O and Al2O3. The SiO2 content in the silica glass is in the range of 60 wt % to 71.1 wt %, the MgO content in the silica glass in the range of 4.5 wt % to 15 wt %, the CaO content in the silica glass in the range of 0.5 wt % to 10 wt %, the Na2O content in the silica glass in the range of 10-20 wt %, the Al2O3 content in the silica glass in the range of 0-10.3 wt %, the silica glass has the ratio [MgO]/[CaO] of larger than 1 and the Q value of 20 or larger, and the Q value is obtained by formula, Q =([MgO]/[CaO])X([CaO]+[Na2O]?[Al2O3]), where [MgO] is the MgO content, [CaO] is the CaO content, [Na2O] is the Na2O content, and [Al2O3] is the Al2O3 content by mass percentage based on oxides.

Abstract: Provided is a Li2O—Al2O3—SiO2-based crystallized glass, comprising, as a composition in terms of mass %, 55 to 75% of SiO2, 20.5 to 27% of Al2O3, 2% or more of Li2O, 1.5 to 3% of TiO2, 3.8 to 5% of TiO2+ZrO2, and 0.1 to 0.5% of SnO2, and satisfying the relationships of 3.7?Li2O+0.741MgO+0.367ZnO?4.5 and SrO+1.847CaO?0.5.

Abstract: Disclosed are ceramic bodies comprised of a tialite phase and at least one silicate phase with a rare earth oxide and zirconium additions and methods for the manufacture of the same.

Abstract: A method of making soda-lime glass using 100 wt % cullet as the glass forming materials is disclosed. Also disclosed is a soda-lime glass container made according to this method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glass item, at least one of the surfaces thereof having antimicrobial properties that are resistant to a temperature treatment, especially a temperature treatment in preparation of the subsequent tempering thereof. The glass item especially comprises an antimicrobial agent beneath the surface of the glass, and nanoparticles that are partially and/or totally incorporated into the mass of the glass close to said surface and consist of at least one inorganic component.

Abstract: The armored or bulletproof glass include a transparent plate laminate, which includes one or more transparent glass ceramic plates made from a green glass body of the Li2O—Al2O3—SiO2 system, optionally one or more additional plates made of plastic material, and optionally one or more glass plates. The glass ceramic plate preferably has a thermal expansion coefficient of ?0.05×10?6/K to ?0.10×10?6/K at 30 to 700° C. and a brightness value for transmitted normal light at an angle of 2°?80 for a 4-mm thick plate. The transparent plate laminate preferably has a total of 4 to 8 plates and a thickness between 40 and 80 mm. A bulletproof vest, a fire prevention glazing, a fireplace viewing window pane, a cooktop, a magnetic storage plate or a substrate for semiconductor materials also advantageously include the transparent plate laminate described here.

Abstract: To provide a crystallized glass capable of attaining the same clarification effect as in the composition containing an arsenic component and an antimony component even in the case of having the composition containing no arsenic component, while maintaining various physical properties peculiar to a Li2O—Al2O3—SiO2-based crystallized glass. Disclosed is a crystallized glass which is characterized by containing a predetermined amount of Li2O, Al2O3, and SiO2 components (on an oxide basis), and containing a predetermined amount of BaO component (on an oxide basis) and the like. This crystallized glass preferably contains ?-quartz and/or ?-quartz solid solution as main crystal phase(s), an average crystal particle size of the main crystal phase(s) being preferably within a range between 5 and 200 nm.

Abstract: A glass ceramic article is provided so that a reliable coloring with a defined transmittance is ensured. The reliable coloring of the glass ceramic article is based on a high content of iron oxide of more than 0.1 percent by weight which itself has a strongly coloring effect does not further reduce transmittance but rather interacts with vanadium oxide to attenuate the absorption caused by vanadium oxide.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing glass ceramic articles such as glass ceramic plates for cooktops or fireplace windows is provided. The method facilitates the adjustment of a specific hue or a specific absorptivity of the glass ceramic in the visible spectral range. The method is based on the finding that the absorption of light by coloring agents which are appropriate for or present in glass ceramics can be attenuated during the ceramization process by adding substances that have a decoloring effect.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to glass frits containing phosphors that can be used in LED lighting devices and for methods associated therewith for making the phosphor containing glass frit and their use in glass articles, for example, LED devices.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a lithium silicate crystalline or amorphous glass overlaying the top surfaces of zirconia and the manufacturing process thereof. More specifically, exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a lithium silicate glass or lithium silicate crystalline glass with high light transmittance and good coloring characteristics and the manufacturing process thereof, which overlays the top surface of zirconia with high mechanical strength, frameworks, or copings. The lithium silicate crystalline or amorphous glass may include 10-15 wt % Li2O, 71.1-85.0 wt % SiO2, 2-5 wt % P2O5 working as nuclear formation agent, 1-5 wt % Al2O3 to increase glass transition temperature and softening temperature, as well as chemical durability of the glass, and 0.01-1.0 wt % ZrO2 which increases the binding strength of the zirconia substructure.

Abstract: Glass-ceramics exhibiting a Vickers indentation crack initiation threshold of at least 15 kgf are disclosed. These glass-ceramics may be ion exchangeable or ion exchanged. The glass-ceramics include a crystalline and amorphous phases generated by subjecting a thin precursor glass article to ceramming cycle having an average cooling rate in the range from about 10° C./minute to about 25° C./minute. In one or more embodiments, the crystalline phase may comprise at least 20 wt % of the glass-ceramics. The glass-ceramics may include ?-spodumene ss as the predominant crystalline phase and may exhibit an opacity ?about 85% over the wavelength range of 400-700 nm for an about 0.8 mm thickness and colors an observer angle of 10° and a CIE illuminant F02 determined with specular reflectance included of a* between ?3 and +3, b* between ?6 and +6, and L* between 88 and 97.

Abstract: Embodiments of a method of forming a glass article are disclosed. The methods include supplying a glass ribbon in a first direction and redirecting the glass ribbon to a second direction different from the first direction without contacting the glass ribbon with a solid material. The glass ribbon may exhibit a viscosity of less than about 108 Poise and a thickness of about 1 mm or less. Embodiments of a glass or glass-ceramic forming apparatus are also disclosed. The apparatus may include a glass feed device for supplying a glass ribbon in a first direction and a redirection system disposed underneath the glass feed device for redirecting the glass ribbon to a second direction. In one or more embodiments, the redirection system comprising at least one gas bearing system for supplying a gas film to support the glass ribbon.

Abstract: Disclosed is a honeycomb catalyst support structure comprising a honeycomb body and an outer layer or skin formed of a cement comprising an amorphous glass powder with a multimodal particle size distribution applied to an exterior surface of the honeycomb body. The multimodal particle size distribution is achieved through the use of a first glass powder having a first median particle size and at least a second glass powder having a second median particle size. In some embodiments, the first and second glass powders are the same amorphous glass consisting of fused silica. The cement may further include a fine-grained, sub-micron sized silica in the form of colloidal silica. The cement exhibits a coefficient of thermal expansion less than 15×10?7/° C., and preferably about 5×10?7/° C. after drying.

Abstract: Lithium silicate materials are described which can be easily processed by machining to dental products without undue wear of the tools and which subsequently can be converted into lithium silicate products showing high strength.