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.

Systems and methods for making ceramic powders are provided. The method for forming a ceramic powder includes: preparing a precursor mixture, wherein the preparing comprises adding at least one additive to a plurality of reagents, wherein the at least one additive includes at least one of: an oxide, a salt, a pure metal, or an alloy of elements ranging from atomic numbers 21 through 30, 39 through 51, and 57 through 77 and combinations thereof; and carbothermically reacting the precursor mixture to form a ceramic powder, wherein, due to the preparing step, the precursor mixture comprises a sufficient amount of the at least one additive to form the ceramic powder, wherein the ceramic powder comprises: (a) a morphology selected from the group consisting of irregular, equiaxed, plate-like, and combinations thereof; and (b) a particle size distribution selected from the group consisting of fine, intermediate, coarse, and combinations thereof.

A bonded body according to an embodiment comprises a ceramic substrate, a copper plate, and a bonding layer provided on at least one surface of the ceramic substrate and bonding the ceramic substrate and the copper plate, in which the bonding layer contains Cu, Ti, and a first element being one or two selected from Sn and In, and the bonding layer includes a Ti-rich region in which a ratio (M.sub.Ti/M.sub.E1) of a mass M.sub.Ti of Ti to a mass M.sub.E1 of the first element being 0.5 or more and a Ti-poor region in which the ratio (M.sub.Ti/M.sub.E1) being 0.1 or less.

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.

One aspect of the present disclosure provides a composite sheet including a porous sintered ceramic component having a thickness of less than 2 mm and a resin filled into pores of the sintered ceramic component, wherein the resin is a semi-cured product of a resin composition including a compound having a cyanate group and the content of triazine rings in the resin is 0.6 to 4.0 mass %.

A composite sheet includes porous a nitride sintered body having a thickness of less than 2 mm and resins filled in pores of the nitride sintered body, and has a main surface having a maximum height roughness Rz of less than 20 μm. A method for manufacturing the composite sheet includes an impregnating step of impregnating pores of a porous the nitride sintered body having a thickness of less than 2 mm with a resin composition, a smoothing step of smoothing the resin composition attached to a main surface of the nitride sintered body to obtain a resin-impregnated body in which a part of the main surface is exposed, and a curing step of heating the resin-impregnated body to cure or semi-cure the resin composition impregnated in the pores to obtain the composite sheet.

It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a thin-film carbon foam and a method of manufacture the same. It is another object of the present disclosure to provide a stack carbon foam having fewer through holes and a method of manufacturing the same. The carbon foam of the present disclosure is, for example, a stack carbon foam being a stack of at least two monolayer carbon foams stacked one another, each monolayer carbon foam comprising linear portions and node portions joining the linear portions, or a carbon foam comprising linear portions and node portions joining the linear portions, wherein the ratio of the number of large through holes having a diameter of 1 mm or more to the surface area of the carbon foam is 0.0003/mm.sup.2 or less.

A sintered body, containing zinc, magnesium and oxygen as constituent elements, wherein the atomic ratio of zinc to the sum of zinc and magnesium [Zn/(Zn+Mg)] is 0.20 to 0.75, the atomic ratio of magnesium to the sum of zinc and magnesium [Mg/(Zn+Mg)] is 0.25 to 0.80, and the sintered body consists of a single crystal structure as measured by X-ray diffraction.

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.

One aspect of the present invention is a method for producing a composite, including a step of placing a porous boron nitride sintered body immersed in a resin composition under a pressurized condition and then placing the boron nitride sintered body immersed in the resin composition under a pressure condition lower than the pressurized condition, wherein the step is repeated a plurality of times.