High Tech Ceramics News articles from January 1999

High Tech Ceramics News archives from January 1999

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Magnetic Float Process for Ceramic Bearings.
January 19, 1999... A magnetic float processing system developed at Oklahoma State University has brought inexpensive, reliable ceramic bearings closer to reality. The process overcomes the well-known limitations of ceramics: brittleness and processing...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Tungsten Carbide by Spray Conversion.
January 19, 1999... In the hard materials industry, the use of fine grain tungsten carbide materials continues to grow, as higher performance tooling is needed to meet new technological challenges. Significant improvements in mechanical, thermal, and chemical...

China Moves Forward in Fine and Nano Powders.
January 19, 1999... Different methods have been developed in China to prepare fine, ultrafine, and nano powders. A review of Chinese developments was presented by Shangai Institute of Metallurgy professor Yijun Sun at the Fine, Ultrafine, and Nano Powders '98...

Nanoceramic Synthesized Using Chemical Process.
January 19, 1999... Chemical synthesis routes play a crucial role in designing the final product and they are also better and less cumbersome methods for the production of fine-grained mixed-oxide powders. The use of chemistry in the preparation of materials can...

COATINGS: Services Offered by Solar Atmospheres.
January 19, 1999... Solar Atmospheres, Inc., is now offering Lanxide Corp.'s titanium carbide (TiC) and silicon carbide (SiC) coating services. TiC and SiC coating is a vacuum deposition process where titanium or silicon carbide compound is formed on graphite...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Ceramic Composites Offers Faster Production.
January 19, 1999... Ceramic Composites, Inc. (CCI) has been fabricating both ceramic and metal matrix composites (CMC and MMC) via CVD. CCI has four workstations with up to 100 kW of RF power and deposits are made from both gaseous precursors and direct...

BIOCERAMICS: Advances in Bioactive Glasses.
January 19, 1999... Researchers at Tampere University of Technology, (Institute of Biomaterials Tampere, Finland) designed self-reinforced, porous, bioactive/bioabsorbable composite structures for bone ingrowth. Bioactive glass, an osteoconductive material,...

Model Aids Design of New Materials.
January 19, 1999... Hydrolytic polycondensation of metal alkoxides and organically modified metal alkoxides shows promise as a method of creating new materials for medical implants. Stephen E. Rankin and Alon V. McCormick of the University of Minnesota, (Dept. of...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Reducing the Cost of Producing Oxygen.
January 19, 1999... Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (7201 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown, PA 18195; Tel: 610/481-4911, Fax: 610/481-6642) kicked off a $25 million program to cut the cost of producing oxygen from air by one third. The project is sponsored by the DOE...

Getting More Beer from the Sediments.
January 19, 1999... Memtech U.K. (Lion Way, Morriston, Swansea, SA79FB, U.K.) is offering the brewing industry a process that uses ceramic membranes to recover and clarify virtually all the beer or cider from sedimented tank bottoms. This process uses the...

Nanoporous-Microporous Silica Formed.
January 19, 1999... Scientists of the Environmental Material Research Laboratory, Kyushu National Industrial Research Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, MITI has been undergoing a research project, "Research to Form Acid-Resistant Mesoporous...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: THUNDER Piezoceramic Actuators and Sensors.
January 19, 1999... "A piezoceramic device just can't do that, no way, not without breaking." According to Norvell Rose, that's a typical reaction from someone familiar with PZTs when the person sees THUNDER in action. Rose is vice president of sales and...

Mass Production Technology for LBO.
January 19, 1999... Shonan Institute of Technology and Chichibu Fuji Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Fuji Electric Co., have jointly established an improved Bridgman process for mass volume-production technology for synthesizing single crystal lithium tetra-borate...

Glass Ceramic Sealing for Circular Connectors.
January 19, 1999... Ceramaseal (New Labanon, NY) has introduced a new line of high- density double-ended circular connectors to the industry, which utilize their new glass ceramic sealing technology. These connectors are available in 3, 6, 10, 19, 32, and 41 pin...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Power Applications Look Bright.
January 19, 1999... High temperature superconducting (High-Tc) technology will have a significant impact on the power industry within a decade according to analysts monitoring this industry, says an overview article by Jennifer Ouellette in The Industrial...

INDUSTRY NEWS: ART Licenses Coatings to Singapore Company.
January 19, 1999... Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. (ART) has reached an agreement with CoolMar Ta Marketing PTE, Ltd., in Singapore. ART will provide a license for the use of Crystallume's CVD diamond coating, a multi-patented advanced coating technology,...

Vishay to Take Year-End Charges.
January 19, 1999... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced that its year-end results, which will be reported in early February 1999, will include charges for two previously announced items. Vishay will record pre-tax, non-cash charges of $13,400,000, which...

Increased AlN Capacity Helps Meet Demand.
January 19, 1999... ART also completed capacity expansions of aluminum nitride powder (AlN) which will allow the company to meet the rapidly increasing demands of the electronic, semiconductor, refractory, and plastic markets. The capacity increases are...

Corning Sues Fibercore, Ltd.
January 19, 1999... Corning Inc. has filed suit against Fibercore Ltd. of Southhampton, Hampshire, U.K. for infringing two of Corning's optical fiber patents and for unfair competition. Corning filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern...

AVX Takes a Hit.
January 19, 1999... AVX Corp. reported that high metal costs and difficult market conditions hurt its third quarter results, cutting into sales and pummeling earnings. The net sales were $310.7 million in the third quarter ended December 31, 1998, compared with...

Illinois Superconductor Remains Optimistic.
January 19, 1999... Illinois Superconductor Corp. says that fourth quarter sales continue to reflect the strong momentum. Until the middle of December 1998, the company shipped over $1 million of product. According to Ted Laves, chairperson, president and CEO,...

BOOKS AND REPORTS: Engineering Coatings: Design and Applications.
January 19, 1999... Edited by Stan Grainger and Jane Blunt, the second edition of the book guides the readers in the choice of coatings and the means of application to fit their specific circumstances. Mechanisms of wear and corrosion are discussed in detail to...

CALENDAR.
January 19, 1999... February 28-March 4, 1999: TMS 1999 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Diego, CA. Contact: TMs Customer Service Dept., 420 Commonwealth Dr., Warrendale, PA 15086-7514; Tel: 800/757-4867, Fax: 412/776-3770. March 17-19, 1999: United Thermal...