High Tech Ceramics News articles from May 2004

High Tech Ceramics News archives from May 2004

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES: Atom-scale Images Tool for Advanced Ceramics.
May 1, 2004... Atom-scale images from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory promise to provide researchers the ability to predict and model the properties and behavior of advanced ceramic materials. A paper published in the April 15, 2004,...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: MAC Assemblies for X-Ray Scanning Devices.
May 1, 2004... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a leading supplier of innovative ceramic material solutions for the medical, telecommunications, semiconductor and aerospace markets, offers its family of components for x-ray scanning devices. The hermetically...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS Ceradyne Wins Armor Orders.
May 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDN) has received additional orders totaling $17.2 million from government agencies for the company's ceramic body armor systems, including small arms protective inserts (SAPI) as well as other body armor systems....

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS DA NanoMaterials Is Expanding.
May 1, 2004... DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials, LLC (DA NanoMaterials), a 50-50 joint venture of DuPont and Air Products, has announced that it is expanding its electronic polishing and planarization business. Each parent company will be adding newly...

Permascand Sells Ceramics Operation to Vesta.
May 1, 2004... On March 31, 2004, Permascand AB sold its silicon and silicon nitride fine ground ceramic powder manufacturing operation in Ljungaverk (Sweden) to Vesta Ceramics AB. These products are used as raw materials for producing high performance wear...

Carbon Nanotubes Can Be Conveyor Belts.
May 1, 2004... In a development that brings the promise of mass production to nanoscale devices, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have transformed carbon nanotubes into conveyor belts capable of ferrying atom-sized particles to microscopic...

COATINGS: EBPVD Y-Zirconia Coating Performance Studied.
May 1, 2004... Vapor deposition approaches for applying metallic bond coats and ceramic thermal protection over-layers are difficult to use when the constituents to be evaporated have widely varying vapor pressures. This significantly limits the range of...

Thermal Spray from Altair.
May 1, 2004... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced that its novel nanomaterials thermal spray grade powder, TiNano Coat, demonstrated significantly superior mechanical properties in a competitive study performed by the National Research Council (NRC) of...

Ti-DLC Coatings Grown by PECVD.
May 1, 2004... The development of protective coatings aiming at a combination of advantageous material properties such as enhanced hardness, wear resistance, and chemical stability have been achieved through the design of nanostructured coatings. There are...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Pressureless-Sintering of Sc3N4/CMCs.
May 1, 2004... Silicon nitride (SN) is considered cone of the most promising materials for high temperature structural applications; however, it is still a niche market. Although, the strength and toughness of silicon nitride no longer present a barrier to...

Alumina Nanocomposites Fabricated In Situ.
May 1, 2004... Swedish researchers (S. Gustafsson, Chalmers University of Technology and Goteborg University, Sweden; L.K. Falk, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; K. Rundgren, Akzo Nobel/Permascand AB, Sweden; E. Carlstrom, Swedish Ceramic Institute,...

BIOCERAMICS: Ceramics for Medical Implant.
May 1, 2004... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), provides ceramic and coating material solutions for medical applications. MAC claims that its ceramic and coating materials offer high-wear resistance, inert surfaces and superior dielectric strength, resulting...

Titania Enhances Osteoblast Adhesion.
May 1, 2004... Much work is needed in the design of more effective bone tissue engineering materials since the average lifetime of an orthopedic implant is less than 15 years. Frequently, orthopedic implants fail due to insufficient integration into...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Nanoporous Ceramic Removes Mercury.
May 1, 2004... Mercury pollution is widely recognized as a growing risk to both the environment and public health. It is estimated that coal- burning power plants contribute approximately 48 tons of mercury to the United States environment each year. The...

FUEL CELLS: Ceria Catalysts for Hydrogen Purification.
May 1, 2004... Catalysis research is key to the introduction of fuel cells in the market. When fuel processing is used to generate hydrogen for low- temperature fuel cells, the reformate gas from fuel processing must be cleaned from carbon monoxide, which...

Portable SOFC Cell Developed.
May 1, 2004... In their effort to gain market acceptance, fuel cells must compete with a variety of energy conversion strategies in terms of conversion efficiency, volume and cost. In the market for portable power sources the fuel cell is measured against the...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: 3M Ups Production of Capacitor Material.
May 1, 2004... The 3M Electronic Solutions Division is scaling up volume production of its 3M brand Embedded Capacitor Material at the company's high tech manufacturing facility in Cumberland, Wisconsin, following several successful customer qualification...

STMicro Introduces Smallest Package.
May 1, 2004... STMicroelectronics (NYSC: STM) has disclosed that it has launched one of the smallest packages available on the market-the MLP8 2x3. Also called UFDFPN8 (Ultra-thin, Fine-pitch, Dual-Flat-Package No- lead), by JEDEC codification, the 8-pin MLP8...

FRAM Dispute Setttlement Reached.
May 1, 2004... U.S. semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corp. signed an agreement with National Semiconductor Corp. to settle their long standing patent interference dispute. As consideration for the assigned patent applications and cross license...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: D-VAR System Sold to LI Power Authority.
May 1, 2004... American Superconductor Corp. and GE Energy, a business of the General Electric Co. announced the sale of a D-VAR (Dynamic Volt- Ampere-Reactive) reactive power compensation system to the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). The D- VAR system...

Progress Made in Coated Conductor Scale.
May 1, 2004... SuperPower is scaling up conductor technology using Ion Beam Assisted Deposition (IBAD) and Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD). Highly smooth substrates have been produced in lengths greater than 100 m using electropolishing. Tape...

INDUSTRY NEWS: NanoDynamics Acquires MMP.
May 1, 2004... Nanomaterials maker NanoDynamics, Inc. has acquired the remaining 50% interest in MetaMateria Partners, LLC (MMP), a developer of nanomaterial synthesis technology, and novel manufacturing and consolidation techniques. As a result, MMP is now a...

Companies Report Quarterly Results.
May 1, 2004... * American Technical Ceramics Corp. Sales Up. American Technical Ceramics, announced financial results for the third fiscal quarter and the 9 months ended March 31, 2004. Net sales for the quarter ended March 31, 2004, increased 35% to...

BOOKS: New Offergings From Acers.
May 1, 2004... Here is a selection of recently published books from the American Ceramics Society. * Ceramic Materials and Multilayer Electronic Devices-Edited by K.M. Nair, A.S. Bhalla, S.-I. Hirano, D. Suvorov, W. Zhu, and R. Schwartz, the volume...

CALENDAR.
May 1, 2004... June 7-12, 2004. Aeromat 2004, Seattle, WA. Contact: ASM International, 9639 Kinsman Rd., Materials Park, OH 44073-0002; Tel: 440/338-5151, Fax: 440/338-4634. September 12-16, 2004. 5th International Conference on High- Temperature Ceramic...