Vessels such as crucibles, pans, open cups and saggars, containing a monolithic ceramic material, and a ceramic matrix composite, wherein the monolithic ceramic material is an inner tart. A method for making oxide materials that can be utilized in the contact with corrosive materials and that allows for higher conversions in a given heating process.

A method of fabricating an article includes providing an arrangement of loose nanowires, forming the loose nanowires into a gas turbine engine airfoil by depositing the loose nanowires into a mold that has a geometry of the gas turbine engine airfoil, and bonding the loose nanowires together into a unitary cellular structure that has the geometry of the gas turbine engine airfoil.

Provided is a eutectic ceramic fiber which has high tensile strength and whose microstructure is not easily coarsened even in a case where the eutectic ceramic fiber is exposed to high temperature air for a long time. The eutectic ceramic fiber includes a Y.sub.3Al.sub.5O.sub.12 matrix and rod-shaped Y.sub.2O.sub.3-containing cubic crystals of ZrO.sub.2 present in such a manner as to be dispersed in the Y.sub.3Al.sub.5O.sub.12 matrix. The Y.sub.3Al.sub.5O.sub.12 matrix is a continuous phase, and the rod-shaped Y.sub.2O.sub.3-containing cubic crystals of ZrO.sub.2 are oriented in a longitudinal direction of the eutectic ceramic fiber.

A catalyst-free synthesis method for the formation of a metalorganic compound comprising a desired (first) metal may include, for example, selecting another (second) metal and an organic solvent, with the second metal being selected to (i) be more reactive with respect to the organic solvent than the first metal and (ii) form, upon exposure of the second metal to the organic solvent, a reaction by-product that is more soluble in the organic solvent than the metalorganic compound. An alloy comprising the first metal and the second metal may be first produced (e.g., formed or otherwise obtained) and then treated with the organic solvent in a liquid phase or a vapor phase to form a mixture comprising (i) the reaction by-product comprising the second metal and (ii) the metalorganic compound comprising the first metal. The metalorganic compound may then be separated from the mixture in the form of a solid.

Provided is a holding seal material including: alumina fibers, wherein the alumina fibers contain 85 to 98 wt % of an alumina component and 15 to 2 wt % of a silica component, the holding seal material has multiple marks formed by needle punching, and in a heat treatment test, a contact pressure of the holding seal material heated at a test temperature of 950 C. is 65 to 99% of a contact pressure of the holding seal material heated at test temperature of 800 C., wherein the heat treatment test includes: a compressing step of disposing the holding seal material between an upper plate and a lower plate and compressing the holding seal material to a gap bulk density (GBD) of 0.3 g/cm.sup.3; a heating step of heating, after the compressing step, the compressed holding seal material to a predetermined test temperature at a temperature-increasing rate of 45 C./min and maintaining the holding. seal material at the test temperature for six hours; a releasing step of cooling, after the heating step, the holding seal material to room temperature and releasing the holding seal material to a gap bulk density (GBD) of 0.27 g/cm.sup.3; and a cycling step of repeating, after the releasing step, 1000 times the cycle of re-compression of the holding seal material to a gap bulk density (GBD) of 0.3 g/cm.sup.3 and re-release of the holding seal material to a gap bulk density (GBD) of 0.27 g/cm.sup.3 so as to calculate the contact pressure (kPa) of the holding seal material by dividing the load at the last re-release in the cycling step by the area of the holding seal material.

A method of manufacturing a green body, the method comprising: providing: a third composition comprising a second substrate material, a third polymer, a fusing agent, and a third solvent; forming the third composition into a structure wherein the third composition forms a third layer; and contacting the third layer with a fourth solvent in which the third polymer is insoluble to precipitate said polymer, thereby forming a green body.

A substrate is further manufactured by: arranging a plurality of green bodies to form an assembly of green bodies;
fusing the green bodies in the assembly together, thereby forming a precursor substrate; and sintering the precursor substrate, thereby forming a substrate.

A molded article having a small difference in thermal conductivities between a central section and a section located at an outer peripheral surface side; and a method for producing the same; wherein, a plate-shaped molded article includes an aluminum-silicon carbide composited section in which a metal including aluminum was impregnated into a silicon carbide porous body, wherein a difference in the densities, by Archimedes' principle, of a central section of the aluminum-silicon carbide composited section and of at least a portion of an outer side section located further toward the outside peripheral surface side than the central section is 3% or less.

We provide methods and apparatus for preparing crystalline-clad and crystalline core optical fibers with minimal or no breakage by minimizing the influence of thermal stress during a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) process as well as the fiber with precisely controlled number of modes propagated in the crystalline cladding and crystalline core fiber via precisely controlling the diameter of crystalline fiber core with under-saturated LPE flux. The resulting crystalline cladding and crystalline core optical fibers are also reported.

The invention relates to a filament comprising a core material (CM) comprising an inorganic powder (IP) and the core material (CM) is coated with a layer of shell material (SM) comprising a thermoplastic polymer. Further, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of said filament, as well as to three-dimensional objects and a process for the preparation thereof.

We provide methods and apparatus for preparing crystalline-clad and crystalline core optical fibers with minimal or no breakage by minimizing the influence of thermal stress during a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) process as well as the fiber with precisely controlled number of modes propagated in the crystalline cladding and crystalline core fiber via precisely controlling the diameter of crystalline fiber core with under-saturated LPE flux. The resulting crystalline cladding and crystalline core optical fibers are also reported.