Examples of preparing ceramic composites

Ceramographic methods have proven indispensable in the characterization of thermally sprayed coatings, in which non-destructive testing methods for purposes of quality assurance have only limited applicability. Characteristic properties of a coating, such as its thickness, structure, porosity, and adhesion to the base material, as well as the hardness of individual phases or the overall composite, can be accurately evaluated by applying these ceramographic methods to the polished section. 

Automated preparation of samples of ceramic composites is preferable to manual preparation, as it ensures the reproducibility of the results and the flatness of the sections. Sections of ceramic composites should first be examined in the unetched state, in which it is easier to recognize material separations, porosity, transitions between coatings and substrates, and coating thickness. As a rule, chemical etching is only effective for portions of the composite. It is advisable to increase the contrast by applying interference layers. 

Active-brazed joint between graphite and a TZM molybdennni alloy (see Tables 44-60 and Figs. 101-134). 

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An excellent example of such a composite membrane type is represented by the work recently published by Tanaka et al. (2008). The starting material used for preparing the novel pore-filled palladium membrane was the YSZ supported on macroporous a-alumina. At this step, palladium particles could be successively deposited as a top layer of the YSZ-7-AI2O3 membrane (Fig. 3.10) or as nano-size pores of ceramic y-Al203 (Fig. 3.lid). 

Examples of known phosphazene polymer blends are those in which phosphazenes with methylamino, trifluoroethoxy, phenoxy, or oligo-ethyleneoxy side groups form blends with poly(vinyl chloride), polystyrene, poly(methyl methacrylate), or polyethylene oxide).97 100 IPNs have been produced from [NP(OCH2CH2OCH2CH2OCH3)2] (MEEP) and poly(methyl methacrylate).101-103 In addition, a special type of IPN has been reported in which a water-soluble polyphosphazene such as MEEP forms an IPN with a silicate or titanate network generated by hydrolysis of tetraethoxysilane or tetraalkoxytitanane.104 These materials are polyphosphazene/ceramic composites, which have been described as suitable materials for the preparation of antistatic layers in the manufacture of photographic film. 

Sol-gel processing involves the use of a hydrolysis reaction to obtain a cross-linked network, which results in the formation of a gel. When preparing metal-ceramic composites, both components may be obtained in this way, or alternatively the metal reinforcement can be introduced by adding, for example, metal nitrates.1718 The gel properties may be controlled by adjusting the pH level, water to metal ratio, and temperature. 

Hydroxycarboxylic acids, which include citric acid, malic acid, lactic acid, etc., are benign to the environment and very convenient for the solution processing. Moreover, since these reagents can form stable complexes with other cations, they rarely yield a precipitate. For several complexes single crystals of well-defined composition suitable for the X-ray structural analysis were isolated. Thus, these water-soluble titanium complexes of hydroxycarboxylic acids are promising precursors for the synthesis of ceramics from an aqueous solution and their industrial utilization is expected in the future. In this chapter we decribe the method of synthesis, structural analysis, and stability of these complexes. The examples of multicomponent oxide materials preparation using these compounds are presented. 

In this section the preparation of ceramic composites by the directed metal oxidation process is described. First, in Section II.A, the aluminum oxide system is used as an example to explain the nature of the process, and a further example, a ZrB2 reinforced ZrC composite, is discussed in Section II.B. 

Agglomeration reactions. Agglomeration reactions among multicomponents to prepare special composites could be conducted under hydrothermal or solvothermal conditions. Examples include the preparation of multi-oxide composite materials and ceramic materials containing volatile OH, F, and S2- components. 

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