Balancing cost and quality is an important consideration for manufacturers and researchers looking to commercialize their innovations. Researchers in Germany explored the tradeoffs that come with creating all-oxide ceramic matrix composites from fiber bundles with higher filament counts.
Read MoreWith a highly technical wave of a wand, MIT researchers have, for the first time, fabricated multifunctional, multimaterial fibers that have a completely different composition than their starting materials.
Read More“Gel-Bonded Alumina-Silicon Carbide-Carbon-Based Blast-Furnace Trough Castable”Incorporation of an organic fiber improved the densification, strength, corrosion and penetration properties, under dried and fired conditions, of gel-bonded Al2O3-SiC-C-based castables that included a…
Read More“Linear Programming Used to Minimize Cost in Wet Processing of Triaxial Ceramics”Linear programming is used to minimize the cost of ceramic bodies as a function of the raw materials, considering…
Read More“Elastic Modulus of Gelcast Cellular Ceramics at High Temperatures”The elastic modulus of alumina cellular samples with various porosities produced by gelcasting foamed suspensions was measured at room and high temperatures,…
Read More“Densification and Grain Growth of Microwave-Sintered Zinc Oxide Varistors”Microwave sintering of ZnO varistor materials can be accomplished at lower temperatures and can decrease grain growth, when compared with conventional sintering…
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