Novel solutions provided by nanoparticles have become an important part of biotechnology, ceramics, semiconductors, electronics and medicine. Nanoparticles can exhibit unique behaviors due to ...

The use of zirconium carbide in engineering applications has been limited by the lack of a fully developed, commercially viable sintering process. Hot pressing powders at between 1900°C and 2300°C can ...

Materials that can withstand very high temperatures well over 2000 degrees (up to 3000 degrees celsius) can enable hypersonic vehicle, better rockets, better reentry vehicles and other space and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new way researchers have developed to make dense ceramics in complex shapes could lead to light, tough, and hard ceramic parts at lower cost. The recently patented technique, called ...

A team of scientists from Britain and China have developed a new ceramic material that could one day make hypersonic air travel a reality. The ceramic carbide coating can withstand the high ...

Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are incredibly strong materials used in jet engines, gas turbines, and cutting tools for nickel superalloys. Aluminum oxide (Al2O3) is hard and chemically inert, and ...

Framatome and General Atomics are to collaborate on the development of accident-tolerant fuel channels fabricated from a silicon carbide composite rather than the current zirconium alloys. Advanced ...