Abstract: An intumescent nanostructured material for thermal protection comprising a member including a plurality of nanostructured materials, and an intumescent material associated with the member and configured to react in the presence of a heat source to form a foam for thermally insulating the member from the heat source. The member may be a non-woven sheet, a woven sheet, a yarn, or a network, and may be configured to conduct thermal energy away from a heat source. A solution comprising a plurality of nanostructured materials, an intumescent material, and a solvent, wherein the solution has a viscosity suitable for coating or spraying onto a surface of a substrate. The solution may have a viscosity of about 3000 centipoise to about 6000 centipoise, and possibly less than about 1000 centipoise. The solution, when dried on the substrate, may form a thermally-protective coating on the substrate.

Abstract: A heat-dissipating component, and a method for manufacturing the same, the component provided with a composited portion including a plate-shaped molded body containing silicon carbide, and hole-formation portions formed in a peripheral edge portion of the composited portion; through-holes being formed in the hole formation sections; the hole-formation portions containing inorganic fibers; the molded body and the inorganic fibers being impregnated with an aluminum-containing metal; and the hole-formation portions forming a part of the outer peripheral surface of the heat-dissipating component.

Abstract: A ceramic liner can include a monolithic body having a surface portion and a bulk portion. The surface portion can have a thickness less than the total thickness of the monolithic body. The monolithic body can include an amorphous phase. The amorphous phase can be discontinuous. At least one member of the discontinuous phase can be embedded in the surface portion. The bulk portion can be substantially free of the amorphous phase. A method of forming a ceramic liner can include providing a furnace with a coating and a bulk material of the ceramic liner and heating the bulk material and the coating. In an embodiment, a coated lining form can be used to provide the coating. In a particular embodiment, the coating can be transferred to the bulk material from the coated lining form.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring board has a strip structure comprising a core material in which a ground pattern is disposed on one side of an insulating layer and a strip line is disposed on the other side, a prepreg disposed on the strip line of the core material, and a ground pattern disposed on the prepreg. In this multilayer wiring board, the core material is formed with a high frequency-adaptive base material, and the prepreg is formed with a general-purpose material.

Abstract: Methods, processes, and systems for producing bulk ceramics from agglomerations of partially cured gelatinous polymer ceramic precursor resin droplets, without using sponge materials to form gas pathways in the polymer bodies. Ceramics can be formed in hours. Resin droplets can be produced with a sprayer where liquid polymer precursors, mixed with a curing agent, are sprayed forming droplets which are partially cured, collected, and compressed into shapes. Ceramic porosity can be varied, droplet particle sizes can be controlled by adjusting liquid and gas pressure, orifice size, during spraying. Partially cured droplets can be formed via an emulsion process and size controlled by emulsion liquid and surfactant selection parameters.

Abstract: A method for preparing a positive active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, the method including obtaining a mixture by mixing a lithium containing compound and metal oxide, distributing powder of a lithium containing compound into a furnace, and heat treating the mixture in the furnace, wherein a thermal decomposition temperature of the lithium containing compound power distributed into the furnace is lower than that of the lithium containing compound mixed with the metal oxide.

Abstract: An inorganic fibrous shaped refractory article having a high bio-solubility which is capable of exhibiting a desired heat resistance without containing expensive ceramic fibers, alumina powder and silica powder can be provided at a low production cost and with a low product price. An inorganic fibrous shaped refractory article includes 2 to 95 mass % of rock wool, 2 to 95 mass % of inorganic powder having a needle-like crystal structure and 3 to 32 mass % of a binder. Preferably, in the an inorganic fibrous shaped refractory article, the inorganic powder having a needle-like crystal structure has an average length of 1 to 3000 ?m and an aspect ratio of 1 to 1000, and more preferably the inorganic powder having a needle-like crystal structure is wollostonite powder or sepiolite powder.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for managing the effects of dispersion in an optical transport system in which some of the system's nodes are connected to one another via inhomogeneous fiber-optic links. In one embodiment, an optical transmitter is configured to apply electronic and/or optical dispersion pre-compensation in the amount selected to cause the peak-to-average-power ratio of the optical signal in the lower-dispersion portion of the link to be relatively low (e.g., close to a minimum value). Advantageously, such dispersion pre-compensation tends to significantly reduce, e.g., in terms of the bit-error rate, the directional anisotropy exhibited by optical transmissions through the inhomogeneous fiber-optic links.

Abstract: Methods of producing silicon carbide fibers. The method comprises reacting a continuous carbon fiber material and a silicon-containing gas in a reaction chamber at a temperature ranging from approximately 1500° C. to approximately 2000° C. A partial pressure of oxygen in the reaction chamber is maintained at less than approximately 1.01×102 Pascal to produce continuous alpha silicon carbide fibers. Continuous alpha silicon carbide fibers and articles formed from the continuous alpha silicon carbide fibers are also disclosed.

Abstract: Non-woven mat including magnesium aluminum silicate glass fibers and amorphous refractory ceramic fibers, bio-soluble ceramic fibers, and/or heat-treated silica fibers. Embodiments of the nonwoven mat surprisingly have a Resiliency Value after three thermal cycles from 25° C. to 700° C./400° C. of the Real Condition Fixture Test at least 1.1 times greater than the Resiliency Value of a comparable non-woven mat consisting of any individual type of fibers of the non-woven mat. The non-woven mats are useful, for example, in pollution control devices and other thermal insulation applications.

Abstract: Inorganic fiber having the following composition ratio and comprising 40 wt % or less of shots each having a diameter of 45 ?m or more: [Composition ratio of inorganic fiber] SiO2 66 to 82 wt %; CaO 10 to 34 wt %; MgO 0 to 3 wt %; Al2O3 0 to 5 wt %; and the total of SiO2, CaO, MgO and Al2O3 is 98 wt % or more.

Abstract: A method of treating tough inorganic fiber bundles including opening a plurality of the tough inorganic fiber bundles such that tough inorganic fibers can be dispersed in a liquid slurry to lay down a homogenous fiber aggregate, wherein the tough inorganic fibers have a crush settle volume of greater than 250 ml, optionally greater than 450 ml. Also, a method of treating tough inorganic fiber bundles including dispersing a plurality of the tough inorganic fiber bundles in a slurry with a dilution of about 0.1% to about 2%, optionally about 0.1% to about 1%, effective to lay down a homogenous fiber aggregate, wherein the tough inorganic fibers have a crush settle volume of greater than 250 ml, optionally greater than 450 ml.

Abstract: Inorganic fibers including calcia, alumina, potassia and optionally sodia as the major fiber components are provided. Also provided are methods of preparing the inorganic fibers and of thermally insulating articles using thermal insulation comprising the inorganic fibers. The inorganic fibers are soluble in physiological saline solutions, do not form crystalline silica, and are resistant to temperatures of 1260° C. and greater.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a plate brick, which comprises: adding an organic binder to a refractory raw material mixture containing aluminum and/or an aluminum alloy; kneading them; forming the kneaded mixture into a shaped body; and burning the shaped body in a nitrogen gas atmosphere at a temperature of 1000 to 1400° C., wherein: when a temperature of a furnace atmosphere is 300° C. or more, the atmosphere is set to a nitrogen gas atmosphere; and when the temperature of the furnace atmosphere is 1000° C. or more, an oxygen gas concentration in the atmosphere is maintained at 100 volume ppm or less, and a sum of a carbon monoxide gas concentration and a carbon dioxide gas concentration is maintained at 1.0 volume % or less.

Abstract: Provided are inorganic fibers containing calcium and alumina as the major fiber components. According to certain embodiments, the inorganic fibers containing calcia and alumina are provided with a coating of a phosphorous containing compound on at least a portion of the fiber surfaces. Also provided are methods of preparing the coated and non-coated inorganic fibers and of thermally insulating articles using thermal insulation comprising the inorganic fibers.

Abstract: Catalysts are disclosed comprising fibrous substrates having silica-containing fibers with diameters generally from about 1 to about 50 microns, which act effectively as “micro cylinders.” Such catalysts can dramatically improve physical surface area, for example per unit length of a reactor or reaction zone. At least a portion of the silica, originally present in the silica-containing fibers of a fibrous material used to form the fibrous substrate, is converted to a zeolite (e.g., having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of at least about 150) that remains deposited on these fibers. The fibrous substrates possess important properties, for example in terms of acidity, which are useful in hydroprocessing (e.g., hydrotreating or hydrocracking) applications.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for producing unmeltable polysilane-polycarbosilane copolymers which are soluble in inert solvents, comprising the steps providing the product of a disproportionation of a methylchlorodisilane or a mixture of several methylchlorodisilanes of the composition Si2MenCl6-n, wherein n=1?4, wherein the disproportionation was carried out with a Lewis base as a catalyst, wherein this product is a chlorine-containing, crude polysilane/oligosilane containing hydrocarbon groups, and thermally postcrosslinking the crude polysilane/oligosilane to a polysilane-polycarbosilane copolymer, characterized in that the chlorine content of the polysilane-polycarbosilane copolymer is lowered by reacting the crude polysilane/oligosilane with a substitution agent, by which chlorine bound therein is replaced with a chlorine-free substituent. Green fibers and low-oxygen/oxygen-free ceramic fibers with a very low chlorine content can be produced using this process.

Abstract: A stitching geometry and method for selective interlaminar reinforcement of a CMC wall (20A). The CMC wall is formed of ceramic fiber layers (22) individually infused with a ceramic matrix, stacked, and at least partially cured. A row of holes is formed in the wall, and a ceramic fiber thread (25) is infused with a wet ceramic matrix and passed through the holes to form stitches (28, 30, 31). The stitches are then cured, causing them to shrink more than any remaining wall shrinkage, thus tensioning the stitches and compressing the wall laminae together. The stitches may have through-wall portions (30, 31) that are angled differently in different wall areas as a function of interlaminar shear over interlaminar tension, optimizing wall reinforcement locally depending on magnitude and direction of shear. Alternate rows of stitches (54, 56) may have offsets in a stitch direction (34) and/or different through-wall angles (A1, A2).

Abstract: This invention relates to a composition comprising: ceramic refractory particulates made from alumina, one or more rare earth oxides, one or more oxides of a transition metal, the transition metal being Sc, Zn, Ga, Y, Cd, In, Sn, Tl, or a mixture of two or more thereof; an alumina and phosphate containing composition; and water. The composition is free of SiO2 or substantially free of SiO2, and is useful as a mortar or coating for molten aluminum or steel contact refractories.

Abstract: An improved ceramic honeycomb structure is comprised of at least two separate smaller ceramic honeycombs that have been adhered together by a cement layer comprised of a cement layer has at least two regions of differing porosity or cement layer where the ratio of toughness/Young's modulus is at least about 0.1 MPa·m1/2/GPa.

Abstract: A method for the production of a ceramic substrate for a semiconductor component, includes the steps of producing paper containing at least cellulose fibers, as well as a filler to be carbonized and/or SiC, pyrolizing the produced paper, and siliconizing the pyrolyzed paper.

Abstract: A ceramic article comprises ceramic fibers having an aspect ratio of greater than 3:1 and ceramic particles. The ceramic fibers are substantially randomly oriented in three dimensions in the ceramic article. A method of forming the ceramic article includes the step of providing a composition including ceramic fibers having an aspect ratio of greater than 3:1 and ceramic particles. The composition is extruded through a multi-screw extruder having at least three intermeshing screws to form an extrudate. The extrudate is heated to form the ceramic article.

Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure 1 which is made of a ceramic material and in which a plurality of honeycomb segments 12 having cell structures 5 and porous outer walls 7 on outer peripheries of the cell structures 5 are integrated by bonding the outer walls 7 to one another with a bonding material, each of the cell structures being provided with a plurality of cells 3 constituting fluid channels divided by porous partition walls 2, wherein the bonding material contains a bio-soluble fiber. The honeycomb structure 1 of the present invention has a performance equivalent to that of a honeycomb structure in which a heretofore used ceramic fiber is contained.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fibrous material includes mixing at least two cordierite precursor materials to form a mixture. One or more of the at least two cordierite precursor materials is in a form of a fiber and the mixture includes about 43% to about 51% by weight SiO2, about 36% to about 41% by weight Al2O3, and about 12% to about 16% by weight MgO. The method also includes extruding the mixture to create a fibrous body, and heat treating the fibrous body, at a temperature of about 1200° C. to about 1420° C., to form the fibrous material including about 50% to about 95% by weight cordierite. A fibrous body includes an extruded substrate having a plurality of fibers including about 50% to about 95% by weight cordierite. The extruded substrate has a coefficient of thermal expansion in at least one direction of less than about 3.8·10?6 per ° C.

Abstract: An SiC fiber bonded ceramic constituted of both a base material which comprises both inorganic fibers made mainly of a sintered SiC structure containing 0.01 to 1 wt % of oxygen (O) and at least one of Groups 2A, 3A and 3B metals and a 1 to 100-nm and carbon (C)-base boundary layer formed among the fibers and a surface part which is made mainly of an SiC-base ceramic structure and formed on at least part of the surface of the base material, characterized in that the boundary portion between the surface part and the base material takes such a gradient structure that the structure of the base material changes into the structure of the surface part gradually and continuously.

Abstract: Provided are inorganic fibers containing calcium and alumina as the major fiber components. According to certain embodiments, the inorganic fibers containing calcia and alumina are provided with a coating of a phosphorous containing compound on at least a portion of the fiber surfaces. Also provided are methods of preparing the coated and non-coated inorganic fibers and of thermally insulating articles using thermal insulation comprising the inorganic fibers.

Abstract: A fibrous ceramic material comprises a plurality of fibers having a RxMg2Al4+xSi5?xO18 or RxMg2?xAl4Si5O18 compositional structure. The fibrous ceramic material is form by combining two or more RxMg2Al4+xSi5?xO18 or RxMg2?xAl4Si5O18 precursors in which at least one of the two or more RxMg2Al4+xSi5?xO18 or RxMg2?xAl4Si5O18 precursors is in fiber form. The fibrous ceramic material is shaped to form a fibrous body in which at least about 20% of all fibers therein are aligned in a substantially common direction.

Abstract: A fibrous ceramic material comprises a plurality of fibers having a modified aluminosilicate compositional structure (i.e., x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2) or w(MO).x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2)). The fibrous ceramic material is form by combining two or more x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2) or w(MO).x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2) precursors in which at least one of the two or more precursors is in fiber form. The resulting fibrous ceramic material has a low coefficient of thermal expansion (i.e., ?4.7×10-6/° C.).

Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material where wear resistance is suppressed from decreasing having excellent chipping resistance and a cutting tool made thereof are provided. The sintered material is constituted from cubic boron nitride particles that are bound by a binder phase, while the binder phase contains a carbide of at least one kind of metal element selected from among metals of groups 4, 5 and 6 of the periodic table and a nitride of at least one kind of metal element selected from among metals of groups 4, 5 and 6 of the periodic table coexisting therein, and therefore the particles can be suppressed from coming off and the binder phase can be suppressed from wearing and coming off at the same time, thereby making the sintered material having high wear resistance and particularly excellent chipping resistance.

Abstract: Provided are inorganic fibers containing calcium and alumina as the major fiber components. According to certain embodiments, the inorganic fibers containing calcia and alumina are provided with a coating of a phosphorous containing compound on at least a portion of the fiber surfaces. Also provided are methods of preparing the coated and non-coated inorganic fibers and of thermally insulating articles using thermal insulation comprising the inorganic fibers.

Abstract: A porous cordierite substrate and a method of forming a porous cordierite substrate including providing a fiber that includes at least one cordierite precursor material and providing at least one organic binder material. The fiber and the organic binder material are mixed with a fluid. The mix of fiber, organic binder material and fluid is extruded into a green substrate. The green substrate is fired to enable the formation of bonds between the fibers and to form a porous cordierite fiber substrate.

Abstract: A pulling roll for glass manufacture comprised of a high-temperature millboard material. The millboard comprises aluminosilicate refractory fiber, silicate, mica, and kaolin clay. A method of manufacturing a pulling roll is disclosed, together with a roll produced by the methods disclosed herein. The method comprises forming a pulling roll and densifying at least a portion of the pulling roll by exposing to the pulling roll to high temperatures.

Abstract: Clutch lings comprising fiber-reinforced ceramic materials which comprise carbon fibers and whose matrix material is selected from among inorganic polymers, oxidic ceramics, set cements, organoelement polymers and finely divided inorganic solids which are held together by an inorganic or organic binders.

Abstract: A sintered molded body consisting of a material that contains aluminum oxide with chromium doping, zirconium oxide with Y-stabilization and strontium aluminates with variable Cr-doping, which is particularly suitable for medical applications.

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: Inorganic fibers consisting substantially of silicon, carbon, oxygen and a transition metal, having a fiber size of no greater than 2 ?m and having fiber lengths of 100 ?m or greater.

Abstract: An ordered ceramic microstructure and a method of making the same. In one embodiment, the ceramic microstructure includes a base structure and one or more ceramic layers. The base structure includes a plurality of first truss elements defined by a plurality of first self-propagating polymer waveguides and extending along a first direction, a plurality of second truss elements defined by a plurality of second self-propagating polymer waveguides and extending along a second direction, and a plurality of third truss elements defined by a plurality of third self-propagating polymer waveguides and extending along a third direction. Here, the first, second, and third truss elements interpenetrate each other at a plurality of nodes to form a continuous material, and the base structure is self-supporting. In addition, the ceramic layers coat a surface of at least one truss element of the first truss elements, the second truss elements, or the third truss elements.

Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to ceramic matrix composites with ceramic fiber reinforcements.

Abstract: The properties of mineral fibres comprising silicon, magnesium, calcium, iron, aluminium and oxygen atoms are improved by exposure to a heat treatment under oxidising conditions which causes migration of MgO, thereby creating an outer layer with increased concentrations of MgO. Batts and other fibrous products containing the fibres have increased resistance to shrinkage and sintering.

Abstract: This invention discloses a kind of cerium-based oxide fiber and its fabricating method. The cerium-based hydrate fiber can be synthesized by aging under the boiling point of water for 10 hours to 50 hours by the addition of a chemical modifier. The fibers show a diameter of submicron to micron size, and the aspect ratio is greater than 100. The hydrate fibers can transform to oxide fiber after calcination at high temperature.

Abstract: A method of making refractory alkaline earth silicate fibres from a melt, including the use as an intended component of alkali metal to improve the mechanical properties of the fibre in comparison with a fibre free of alkali metal.

Abstract: Disclosed are cement compositions for applying to honeycomb substrates. The cement compositions contain an inorganic powder batch composition; a binder; a liquid vehicle; and an elastic modulus reducing additive. The elastic modulus reducing additive can contain a ceramic fiber or a monohydrated alumina. The cement compositions are well suited for forming ceramic diesel particulate wall flow filters. Also disclosed herein are end plugged wall flow filters that include the disclosed cement compositions and methods for the manufacture thereof.

Abstract: A carbon-containing refractory is provided, which can improve the thermal shock resistance, the abrasion resistance, and the corrosion resistance without degrading the oxidation resistance. In a carbon-containing refractory composed of a refractory aggregate, a carbon based raw material, and a carbon bond connecting between the refractory aggregate or the carbon based raw material, transition metal-containing nanoparticles having particle diameters of 1,000 nm or less and containing a transition metal are contained in the above-described carbon bond while being dispersed. When the carbon-containing refractory is heat-treated, flexible structures of carbon fiber-shaped textures having diameters of 50 nm or less are formed in the inside of a carbon bond and, thereby, an increase in strength, a reduction in modulus of elasticity, and a reduction in thermal expansion coefficient are facilitated.

Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a method for making sol-gel ceramic nanofibers, and the compositions resulting from practicing such method. Fibers so formed can be used for fabricating filter media and a wide variety of other ceramic fiber structures and devices.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fibrous material includes mixing at least two cordierite precursor materials to form a mixture. One or more of the at least two cordierite precursor materials is in a form of a fiber and the mixture includes about 43% to about 51% by weight SiO2, about 36% to about 41% by weight Al2O3, and about 12% to about 16% by weight MgO. The method also includes extruding the mixture to create a fibrous body, and heat treating the fibrous body, at a temperature of about 1200° C. to about 1420° C., to form the fibrous material including about 50% to about 95% by weight cordierite. A fibrous body includes an extruded substrate having a plurality of fibers including about 50% to about 95% by weight cordierite. The extruded substrate has a coefficient of thermal expansion in at least one direction of less than about 3.8·10?6 per ° C.

Abstract: A method for producing composite ceramic material is provided wherein a core ceramic structure is produced and simultaneously enveloped with a sleeve of similar material.

Abstract: A heat insulating member for an end cone portion of an exhaust gas conversion apparatus is formed by laminating sheets each made of alumina-silica based ceramic fibers to form a matte and subjecting the matte to needling in a lamination direction of the sheets, in which a composition of the ceramic fiber used in the matte is alumina:silica=60-80:40-20.

Abstract: A fibrous ceramic material comprises a plurality of fibers having a modified aluminosilicate compositional structure (i.e., x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2) or w(MO).x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2)). The fibrous ceramic material is form by combining two or more x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2) or w(MO).x(RO).y(Al2O3).z(SiO2) precursors in which at least one of the two or more precursors is in fiber form. The resulting fibrous ceramic material has a low coefficient of thermal expansion (i.e., ?4.7×10?6/° C.).

Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to ceramic fibers, which when employed in sheets to provide flexibility and to methods for making same. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to ceramic fibers that are heat and chemical resistant, and to a method for making same. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to ceramic nanofibers and ceramic nanofiber sheets, and to a method for making same. In still another embodiment, the present invention relates to electrospun ceramic nanofibers and nanofiber sheets, products that include such fibers, and to methods of making same.

Abstract: Insulation materials suited to high temperature applications, such as the insulation of furnaces, are formed from a mixture of pitch carbon fibers, such as isotropic pitch carbon fibers, and a binder comprising a solution of sugar in water. The sugar solution is preferably at a concentration of from 20-60% sucrose to yield a low density material having high flexural strength and low thermal conductivity when carbonized to a temperature of about 1800° C.