Composite structures having a reinforced material intermingled with a substrate wherein the reinforced material includes titanium monoboride, titanium diboride, or a combination thereof.

A process for depositing a coating on short fibres of carbon or silicon carbide from a coating precursor, the short fibres having a length of between 50 m and 5 mm, the process including at least heating the short fibres by placing a mixture including the fibres and a liquid phase of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the fibres to a temperature allowing the coating on the fibres from the coating precursor to be formed by calefaction.

A support member for a thermal processing chamber is described. The support member has a sol coating on at least one surface. The sol coating contains a material that blocks a desired wavelength or spectrum of radiation from being transmitted by the material of the support member. The sol coating may be a multi-layer structure that may include adhesion layers, transition layers, and cap layers, in addition to radiation-blocking layers.

A support member for a thermal processing chamber is described. The support member has a sol coating on at least one surface. The sol coating contains a material that blocks a desired wavelength or spectrum of radiation from being transmitted by the material of the support member. The sol coating may be a multi-layer structure that may include adhesion layers, transition layers, and cap layers, in addition to radiation-blocking layers.

A silver mirror film includes a plurality of silver particles arranged in a film surface direction, a plurality of interparticle silicon particles between the silver particles, and a plurality of surface silicon particles on surfaces of the silver particles so as to at least partially cover the surfaces. The interparticle silicon particles and the surface silicon particles are present as (Si.sub.xO.sub.2y).sub.n{x1, y1, and n1}.

The present disclosure discloses a method of preparing a carbon-coated ceria hollow sphere, which includes the following steps of: S110, dispersing silica in a solvent to obtain a silica dispersion; S120, performing a hydrothermal reaction between the silica dispersion and a cerium salt to obtain a ceria-coated silica microsphere; S140, coating the ceria-coated silica microsphere with a carbon source to obtain a primary product, wherein the carbon source is dopamine; S160, sintering the primary product under a protective gas atmosphere to obtain a carbon-coated ceria microsphere; and S170, etching the carbon-coated ceria microsphere by using an etchant to obtain a carbon-coated ceria hollow sphere.

The present invention relates to a method for producing silicon carbide-containing fibers or silicon carbide-containing nano- and/or micro-structured foams, and to the use thereof, in particular as anode materials for lithium-ion storage batteries.

A component is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft component includes an object and a multi-layer coating. The object includes an object surface. The multi-layer coating includes a barrier layer and a laminar flow layer. The covers at least a portion of the object surface. The barrier layer a fluoropolyether, a silicon rubber and/or a polyurethane. The laminar flow layer covers the barrier layer and forms an exterior surface of the component. The laminar flow layer includes a sol-gel siloxane, a rare-earth oxide and/or a phosphate.

The present disclosure discloses a method of preparing a carbon-coated ceria hollow sphere, which includes the following steps of: S110, dispersing silica in a solvent to obtain a silica dispersion; S120, performing a hydrothermal reaction between the silica dispersion and a cerium salt to obtain a ceria-coated silica microsphere; S140, coating the ceria-coated silica microsphere with a carbon source to obtain a primary product, wherein the carbon source is dopamine; S160, sintering the primary product under a protective gas atmosphere to obtain a carbon-coated ceria microsphere; and S170, etching the carbon-coated ceria microsphere by using an etchant to obtain a carbon-coated ceria hollow sphere.

A process for depositing a coating on a continuous fibre of carbon or silicon carbide from a precursor of the coating, includes heating a segment of the fibre in the presence of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the segment to a temperature allowing the coating to form on the segment from the coating precursor, wherein the segment of fibre is in the presence of a supercritical phase of the precursor of the coating in the reactor and the coating is formed by supercritical phase chemical deposition in the reactor.