A manufacturing system includes a tape advancing through the manufacturing system and a station of the manufacturing system. The tape includes a first portion having grains of an inorganic material bound by an organic binder. The station of the manufacturing system receives the first portion of the tape and prepares the tape for sintering by chemically changing the organic binder and/or removing the organic binder from the first portion of the tape, leaving the grains of the inorganic material, to form a second portion of the tape and, at least in part, prepare the tape for sintering.

Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.

A process of forming a sintered article includes heating a green portion of a tape of polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals in organic binder at a binder removal zone to a temperature sufficient to pyrolyze the binder; horizontally conveying the portion of tape with organic binder removed from the binder removal zone to a sintering zone; and sintering polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals of the portion of tape at the sintering zone, wherein the tape simultaneously extends through the removal and sintering zones.

Provided is a boron nitride sintered body including boron nitride particles and pores, in which an average pore diameter of the pores is less than 2 μm. Provided is a method for manufacturing a boron nitride sintered body, the method including: a nitriding step of firing a boron carbide powder in a nitrogen pressurized atmosphere to obtain a fired product containing boron carbonitride; and a sintering step of molding and heating a blend containing the fired product and a sintering aid to obtain the boron nitride sintered body including boron nitride particles and pores, in which the sintering aid contains boron oxide and calcium carbonate, and the blend contains 1 to 20 parts by mass of a boron compound and a calcium compound in total with respect to 100 parts by mass of the fired product.

A multilayered polyester film which comprises a polyester film and, disposed on at least one surface thereof, a layer X which has a contact angel HX(1) with water of 0-60°, wherein the layer X has a degree of crystallinity C(0) of 0-30%. HX(1): Contact angle at one second after water has come into contact with layer X. A polyester film having excellent recoverability is provided by disposing a layer X on at least one surface of a polyester film, the layer X having a regulated contact angle with water and a regulated degree of crystallinity.

Described herein are embodiments directed to additive manufacturing (AM), including three-dimensional (3D) printing, of metal nitride ceramics. In some embodiments herein, AM may comprise powder bed fusion (PBF) techniques. Also described herein are metal nitride ceramic components formed by AM techniques and methods for forming metal nitrides capable of being used in AM processes.

A method of manufacturing ceramic tape includes a step of directing a tape of partially-sintered ceramic into a furnace. The tape is partially-sintered such that grains of the ceramic are fused to one another yet the tape still includes at least 10% porosity by volume, where the porosity refers to volume of the tape unoccupied by the ceramic. The method further includes steps of conveying the tape through the furnace and further sintering the tape as the tape is conveyed through the furnace. The porosity of the tape decreases during the further sintering step.

Set forth herein are processes for making lithium-stuffed garnet oxides (e.g., Li.sub.7La.sub.3Zr.sub.2O.sub.12, also known as LLZO) that have passivated surfaces comprising a fluorinate and/or an oxyfluorinate species. These surfaces resist the formation of oxides, carbonates, hydroxides, peroxides, and organics that spontaneously form on LLZO surfaces under ambient conditions. Also set forth herein are new materials made by these processes.

A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body in which internal electrodes are stacked in a first axis direction, the multilayer body having side faces perpendicular to a second axis direction that is orthogonal to the first axis direction, ends of the internal electrodes being positioned at the side faces and aligned within a range of 0.5 μm in the second axis direction; and side margin portions covering the side faces, respectively, the side margin portions including a ceramic polycrystal as a main component and glass grains dispersed in the polycrystal, a total volume ratio of the glass grains with respect to the polycrystal being 1% or more and 20% or less, a median diameter of the glass grains is 0.20 μm or more and less than 0.75 μm, and is 90% or more of a median diameter of crystal grains constituting the polycrystal.

Disclosed are a ferrite green sheet comprising a pattern formed in a top surface of the ferrite green sheet, a sintered ferrite sheet, a ferrite composite sheet comprising the same, and a conductive loop antenna module. The pattern comprises a plurality of grooves, each groove has a width W and a rounded shape bottom having a radius of curvature of R, wherein a ratio of W to R (W:R) is in the range of 1:0.1 to 1:0.5.