Objective (s): Silicate bioceramics containing Zn and Ca like hardystonite (Hr) with chemical formula Ca2ZnSi2O7 has attracted the attention of researchers in biomedical field due to its remarkable biological and mechanical properties. The new generation of bioceramics can applied in bone tissue engineering to substitute with infected bone. However, these zirconium-silicate bioceramics have pro...

Ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are most recently getting much attention for structural parts of hypersonic missiles with their cruising speed more than Mach 5. Most the UHTCs poor sinterability carbides, nitrides, and borides. Therefore, they have been studied developed a long time. However, there still many problems to solve. In this paper, based on solid-state reaction presented as a...

The development of novels materials represents a new and fast evolving application of research in physics and medicine. Processing synthesis is critical because it generally controls the final properties of the materials, ceramic forming techniques are generally based on powder processing with powder synthesis, forming and sintering. Moreover, ceramic processing has also to consider other techn...

Solid state chemical reaction is attributed to the chemical reaction performed at temperature which reactants are solid. In most solid state chemical reactions the reaction volume continually diminishes as the reactants become spatially separated by the products. As a result, the kinetics of solid state chemical reactions are limited by the rate at which reactant species are able to diffuse acr...

We demonstrate a route to synthesize ultra-high-temperature ceramic coatings of ZrB2 at temperatures below 1300 K using Zr/B reactive multilayers. Highly textured crystalline ZrB2 is formed at modest temperatures because of the absence of any oxide at the interface between Zr and B and the very short diffusion distance that is inherent to the multilayer geometry. The kinetics of the ZrB2 format...

V2O5 is used to substitute Ta2O5 site of the SrBi2Ta2O9 ceramics to form SrBi2Ta2-xVxO9 composition, where 0.1 x 0.4 ≦ ≦ . The sintering and the dielectric properties of SrBi2Ta2-xVxO9 ceramics have been developed. For all SrBi2Ta2-xVxO9 composition, the crystal intensities of the (0,0,l) planes increase with the increase of sintering temperature and saturate at 1050C-sintered ceramics, and the...

A new process for the production of nanostructured materials, hypersonic plasma particle deposition (HPPD), is experimentally investigated. In HPPD, vapor phase precursors are injected into a flowing plasma generated by a DC arc. The plasma undergoes a supersonic expansion into a deposition chamber, with the pressure dropping across the nozzle from &500 Torr to &2 Torr. Ultrafine particles nucl...