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The Gel-Casting of Non-Oxide Ceramics

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Novel Colloidal Forming of Ceramics

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In this chapter, the non-oxide powder surface characteristics before and after treatment and the effect of surface modification on the solid loading of its aqueous suspension were studied systematically. For Si3N4 powders, a universal method to prepare highly concentrated suspensions has been established. The results show that the Si3N4 ceramics with high-reliability was obtained by surface modification of the powder and different processing strategy.

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Huang, Y., Yang, J. (2010). The Gel-Casting of Non-Oxide Ceramics. In: Novel Colloidal Forming of Ceramics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12281-1_5

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