• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.174-180
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• 2000

Y-TZP/mullite composites were prepared by the infiltration of Y-TZP precursor into partially reaction-sintered mullite. The addition of Y-TZP(~7.2 wt%) increased the bend strength(207 MPa), fracture toughness(4.6MPa.m1/2) and Vickers microhardness(853kg/$\textrm{mm}^2$) of the uninfiltrated mullite sintered at 162$0^{\circ}C$ for 10h by more than 75, 70 and 105%, respectively. Residual alumina-rich glass was observed at a mullite/mullite junction, due to the mullitization reaction of silica melt with crystalline $\alpha$-Al2O3 during a final sintering. Although ZrO2 inclusions improved the final sintered density of mullite they did not effectively prevent its grain growth.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.137-141
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• 1999

To increase the strength of high-purity porous mullite ceramics, ultra fine mullite precursor powders of about 10nm in diameter were deposited at point of contact between primary coarse mullite particles of about 60$\mu\textrm{m}$. The deposited and hetero coagulated structures of ultra fine mullite precursor powders were controlled by pH. The optimum pH condition to form a uniform deposition of mullite powders between coarse mullite particles was in the range from 7 to 8. Deposition of the ultra fine powders did not form at pH < 7 and pH > 10 irregular deposition was observed from pH 8 to 9.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.151-157
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• 2004

Because of the excellent thermal and chemical properties of mullite and cordierite as the stable oxide ceramic materials, they were widely used from engineering materials to electronic materials. Notwithstanding of their high demands, mullite was synthesised because it is not existed in nature. It is also difficult to produce cordierite of fine powder with high purity due to the narrow range of synthetic temperature. Mullite was synthesised by solid state reaction. However, synthesized mullite has been inhomogeneous. Because of the facts, various synthetic methods have been studied so far including sol-gel method. The purpose of this study is to synthesis mullite and cordierite of fine powder with high purity at the lower temperature by solution-polymerization route using PVA as a polymer carrier, which is an economical method by using low cost materials. As a result, mullite and cordierite were produced with mono crystal phase at 1200$^{\circ}C$ and 1250$^{\circ}C$, respectively, and their surface area over 20 ㎡/g.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.133-138
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• 1997

The conventional process in synthesizing mullite powder required high temperature ($1300^{\circ}C$) and long chemical reaction time. Thus the combustion process was used to synthesize the mullite powder in order to reduce the reaction time and temperature. The mixture of metal nitrate, fine silica, and fuel was used as the redox compounds under various experimental conditions. The combustion fire in hot plate experiment in rich, lean and stoichiometry fuel does not produce mullite. However, the obvious mullite, small amount of alumina and cristobalite was observed in the $500^{\circ}C$ pre-heat treatment furnace experiment. The components such as silica, urea, aluminm nitrate should be stoichiometry in order to make a perfect mullite crystal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.60.1-60
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.199.1-199
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• 2003

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.82-88
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• 1999

In this study, the formation of mullite phase with mineralizer have been investiagated Hadong Kaolin and boehmite were used as starting materials and also of TiCl4 and MnCl4 aquous solution were used as a mineralizer. In the addition of 3.5% MnO as a mineralizer, mullite single phase could be obtained at 125$0^{\circ}C$ without any other second phases. However in the addition of TiO2 as a mineralizer, mullite single phase is obtained at above 135$0^{\circ}C$. Therefore the formation of mullite is lowered in the case of MnO as a mineralizer than of TiO2. Because it is easy to obtain mullite single phase in the case of MnO addition, all the characteristics improved. The values of bulk density, water absorption and bending strength at room temperature were 2.72g/㎤, 0.27% and 180 MPa, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Crystallography
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.89-96
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• 1997

In order to apply synthesis technique of the high purity ceramic powder to the traditional ceramic powder, mullite powder which is widly used for refractory materials was synthesized. Boehmite and Hadong kaolin with high alumina content were used as starting materials and gel coating method was tried to produce the mullite powder. As a result, the mullite powder of high quality was successfully obtained at 1350℃. The unreacted silica and cornudum were not observed in the synthesized mullite powder, mullite content was more than 80% when the starting materials were sintered at 1700℃. Their properties showed bulk specific gravity of 2.56, water absorption of 1.9%, and 3-point flexual strength of 169 MPa. It is thought that that their good properties are applicable to refractory materials of high quality.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.497-504
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• 2000

In this study, mullite-zirconia comosite was fabricated by adding ZrOCl2.8H2O using of boehmite gel coating to Hadong kaolin (pink A grade) in order to enhance strength of the mullite specimens. The influence of ZrOCl2.8H2O content and fireing temperature on the crystall phase, microstructure, bulk density, strength of the specimens was investigated. Mullite-zirconia composite was produced in the process of coating zirconia to mullite powder synthesized thereafter and mixing simultaneously of starting materials with boehmite-zirconia gel. Maximum strength with in this study was 251 sintered at 1$600^{\circ}C$ for 2h. Bulk density and strength of the composite with zirconia coated mullite was higher than simultaneous on mixture of starting materials.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.1080-1086
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• 1999

Mullite/zirconia composite was synthesized by adding zirconia and Zircon to mixture of Hapcheon kaolin(grade pink A) and aluminium nitrate salt in order to enhance strength of the mullite specimens. Kaolin and aluminium nitrate salt was mixed milled and calcined at 100$0^{\circ}C$ and then 5wt% mullite seed was added to increase mullite content. The influence of the additives(ZrO2 and ZrSiO4) and sintering temperature on the strength of the sintered specimens was investigated. The flexural strength of the specimens containing 10wt% zirconia was enhanced from 150MPa without the additive up to 300MPa after heat treatment at 156$0^{\circ}C$ In the case of addition of 15wt% zircon the strength of the specimens systhesized at 1$600^{\circ}C$ was 225 MPa.