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Fabrication of Ordered or Disordered Macroporous Structures with Various Ceramic Materials from Metal Oxide Nanoparticles or Precursors

  • Cho, Young-Sang;Moon, Jun-Hyuk;Kim, Young-Kuk;Choi, Chul-Jin
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.347-358
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    • 2011
  • Two different schemes were adopted to fabricate ordered macroporous structures with face centered cubic lattice of air spheres. Monodisperse polymeric latex suspension, which was synthesized by emulsifier-free emulsion polymerization, was mixed with metal oxide ceramic nanoparticles, followed by evaporation-induced self-assembly of the mixed hetero-colloidal particles. After calcination, inverse opal was generated during burning out the organic nanospheres. Inverse opals made of silica or iron oxide were fabricated according to this procedure. Other approach, which utilizes ceramic precursors instead of nanoparticles was adopted successfully to prepare ordered macroporous structure of titania with skeleton structures as well as lithium niobate inverted structures. Similarly, two different schemes were utilized to obtain disordered macroporous structures with random arrays of macropores. Disordered macroporous structure made of indium tin oxide (ITO) was obtained by fabricating colloidal glass of polystyrene microspheres with low monodispersity and subsequent infiltration of the ITO nanoparticles followed by heat treatment at high temperature for burning out the organic microspheres. Similar random structure of titania was also fabricated by mixing polystyrene building block particles with titania nanoparticles having large particle size followed by the calcinations of the samples.

Synthesis of SiC Nano-powder from TEOS by RF Induction Thermal Plasma (RF 열플라즈마를 이용한 TEOS로 부터의 SiC 나노분말 합성)

  • Ko, Sang-Min;Koo, Sang-Man;Kim, Jin-Ho;Kim, Ji-Ho;Byeon, Myeong-Seob;Hwang, Kwang-Taek
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2011
  • Silicon carbide (SiC) has recently drawn an enormous industrial interest because of its useful mechanical properties such as thermal resistance, abrasion resistance and thermal conductivity at high temperature. RF Thermal plasma (PL-35 Induction Plasma, Tekna CO., Canada) has been utilized for synthesis of high purity SiC powder from cheap inorganic solution (Tetraethyl Orthosilicate, TEOS). It is found that the powders by thermal plasma consist of SiC with free carbon and amorphous silica ($SiO_2$) and, by thermal treatment and HF treatment, the impurities are driven off resulting high purity SiC nano-powder. The synthesized SiC powder lies below 30 nm and its properties such microstructure, phase composition, specific surface area and free carbon content have been characterized by X-ay diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), thermogravimetric (TG) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET).

Evaluation of micro-channel characteristics of fused silica glass using powder blasting (Powder blasting을 이용한 Fused silica glass의 마이크로 채널 가공 및 특성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Won;Kim, Tae-Min;Shin, Bong-Cheol
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2020
  • Recently, due to the development of MEMS technology, researches for the production of effective micro structures and shapes have been actively conducted. However, the process technology based on chemical etching has a number of problems such as environmental pollution and time problems due to multi-process. Various processes to cope with this process are being studied, and one of the mechanical etching processes is the powder blasting process. This process is a method of spraying fine particles, which has the advantage of being an effective process in manufacturing hard brittle materials. However, it is also a process that adversely affects the material surface roughness and material properties due to the impact of the injection of fine particles. In this study, after fabricating micro-channels in fused silica glass with excellent optical properties among the hard brittle materials, we used the nano indentation system to analyze the micro parts using nano-particles as well as machinability and surface roughness analysis of the processed surface. The analysis was performed for the effective processing of powder blasting.