A method of forming a thermal barrier coating is disclosed. The method may include providing a solution containing strontium and niobium and applying the solution to a substrate via a chemical solution deposition process to form a first film layer on the substrate. The method may further include pyrolyzing the first film layer and annealing the first film in an air atmosphere to form a strontium niobate coating.

The present invention discloses a method for uniformly coating metal nanoparticles without a carbon impurity on an oxide ceramic powder surface, which includes the steps of putting grinded and mixed a metal organic material and oxide ceramic powder into a rotational reaction chamber, then bubbling oxidizing gas under a rotational and heating condition to oxidize the metal organic material into a metal oxide, and finally bubbling reducing gas to reduce the metal oxide into nanoparticles in a metallic state, so as to implement the uniform coating of the nanoparticles in the metallic state, and avoid coarsening and growing problems of nanoparticles led by a long-term coating reaction under a high temperature. The present invention has a simple method and a short preparation period, and the metal nanoparticles prepared are uniformly dispersed and have wide application prospects in multiple fields like catalytic materials and conductive ceramics.

A method for producing a cermet composition, including mixing a first predetermined amount of a yttria stabilized zirconia powder with between 2 and 8 weight percent mu-metal powder to define a homogeneous admixture, oxidizing the mu-metal in the admixture, forming the homogeneous admixture into a green body, calcining the green body in a first reducing atmosphere to remove oxygen from the oxidized mu-metal to yield a calcined body, and sintering the calcined body in a second reducing atmosphere to yield a densified body having no more than 0.8% porosity. The densified body has a plurality of mu-metal particles distributed therethrough, a hardness of at least 1450 HV, flexural strength of at least 200 kPSI, and a relative permeability μ/μ.sub.o of at least 850.

Provided is a wear resistant, sintered body made of a binderless carbide, cermet or cemented carbide, e.g., WC, W2C and/or eta-phase, with a grain size less than 6.0 μm, and less than 6% binder phase (e.g., Co—Ni—Fe). At least some working surfaces of the sintered body are surface treated with a boron yielding method including applying a low viscosity liquid medium having boron or aluminum content and heating at 1200° C. to 1450° C. under a pressure less than atmospheric pressure or a hydrogen containing atmosphere to from a hardness gradient with an increased hardness of the treated working surfaces of at least 50 to 200 HV5 and favorable compressive stresses in a surface zone that gives a tougher working surfaces of the boronized sintered bodies.

Provided is a dielectric composition exhibiting a high strength and a high specific dielectric constant. The dielectric composition contains composite oxide particles having a composition formula represented by (Sr.sub.xBa.sub.1-x).sub.yNb.sub.2O.sub.5+y and an Al-based segregation phase. The Al segregation phase has niobium, aluminum, and oxygen.

A complex sintered body includes a lamination of a layer composed of a zirconia sintered body containing 0.5% or more by mole and less than 4% by mole of an oxide of cerium in terms of CeO.sub.2, 2% or more by mole and less than 6% by mole of yttria and 0.1% or more by mass and less than 2% by mass of an oxide of aluminum; and at least one of a layer composed of a zirconia-based sintered body containing 2.0% or more by mass and 20.0% or less by mass of an oxide of aluminum, and a layer composed of a zirconia-based sintered body containing 2% or more by mole and less than 6% by mole of yttria and a coloring agent.

In order to provide a dielectric composition having high density even when fired at a relatively low temperature, the main component of a dielectric composition includes tantalum and at least one of barium or strontium, and the subcomponent of the dielectric composition includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of vanadium, titanium, and aluminum.

A golden ceramic includes: a ceramic matrix in a weight percentage of 80-99% and a colorant in a weight percentage of 1-20%, wherein the ceramic matrix includes zirconium oxide and yttrium oxide, and the colorant includes zirconium nitride.

A dielectric ceramic composition and a multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising the same includes a barium titanate (BaTiO.sub.3)-based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient, and the accessory ingredient includes a third trivalent lanthanide rare earth element A and terbium (Tb) as rare earth elements, and a molar ratio (Tb/A) of a content of terbium (Tb) to the content of the trivalent lanthanide rare earth element A satisfies 0.15≤Tb/A<0.50.

A method of manufacture for a carbon/carbon part including a method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing a gaseous reducing agent hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures. A method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures.