The disclosure provides a ceiling tile including a curable coating composition including 10-50 vol. % inorganic binder, based on the total volume of solids in the dry coating composition, wherein the inorganic binder is an alkali metal silicate or an alkaline earth metal silicate and 50-90 vol. % inorganic filler, based on the total volume of solids in the coating composition, wherein the binder and the filler are not the same and the coating is substantially free of an organic polymeric binder. The ceiling tiles have a backing side and an opposing facing side, and a cured coating layer disposed on the backing side of the panel, the backing side being directed to a plenum above the fibrous panel in a suspended ceiling tile, the cured coating layer including the curable coating composition of the disclosure.

What are described are a process for producing an insulating product for the construction materials industry or an insulating material as intermediate for production of such a product, and a corresponding insulating material/insulating product. Also described are the use of a matrix encapsulation method for production of composite particles in the production of an insulating product for the construction materials industry or of an insulating material as intermediate for production of such a product, and the corresponding use of the composite particles producible by means of a matrix encapsulation method.

A turbine engine has: a first member (22) having a surface bearing an abradable coating, the abradable coating (36) being at least 90% by weight ceramic; and a second member (24) having a surface bearing an abrasive coating. The abrasive coating (56) has a metallic matrix (64) and a ceramic oxide abrasive (66) held by the metallic matrix, the first member and second member mounted for relative rotation with the abrasive coating facing or contacting the abradable coating. At least 50% by weight of the ceramic abrasive has a melting point at least 400K higher than a melting point of at least 20% by weight of the ceramic of the abradable coating.

Magnetizable abrasive particles are described comprising ceramic particles having outer surfaces comprising a coating of unsintered polyion and magnetic particles bonded to the polyion. In favored embodiments, the magnetic particles have a magnetic saturation of at least 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50 emu/gram. In another embodiment, an abrasive article is described comprising a plurality of magnetizable abrasive particles as described herein retained in a binder material. Also described are method of making magnetizable abrasive particles and methods of making an abrasive article comprising magnetizable abrasive particles.

Disclosed are an anti-corrosion and anti-coking ceramic coating with easy state identification for a coal-fired boiler and a preparation method thereof. The ceramic coating is formed by compounding a bottom coating layer and a surface coating layer, wherein the bottom coating layer is prepared from raw materials comprising sodium silicate, lanthanum oxide, niobium pentoxide, aluminum oxide, bismuth oxide, boron oxide, zinc oxide, silicon oxide, titanium dioxide, nano whisker, titanium nitride, and graphite fluoride, and the surface coating layer is prepared from raw materials comprising sodium silicate, lanthanum oxide, niobium pentoxide, chromium oxide, aluminum oxide, bismuth oxide, boron oxide, zinc oxide, silicon oxide, graphite fluoride, titanium nitride, silicon carbide, nano whisker, and cobalt green. An operating state of the ceramic coating is rapidly identified by a color difference between the bottom coating layer and the surface coating layer, which is beneficial to efficient maintenance of the ceramic coating during inspection.

The invention relates to a pre-impregnated fibre-reinforced composite material in laminar form, obtained impregnating a fibrous mass with a polymeric binder composition and intended to be subjected to successive forming and pyrolysis operations to produce a fibre-reinforced composite ceramic material. The polymeric binder composition is based on one or more resins chosen from the group consisting of siloxane resins and silsesquioxane resins, and can optionally comprise one or more organic resins. The polymeric binder composition is a liquid with viscosity between 55000 and 10000 mPas at temperatures between 50° C. and 70° C. The polymeric binder composition forms a polymeric binding matrix, not cross-linked or only partially cross-linked that fills the interstices of the fibrous mass. The invention also relates to a method for making said pre-impregnated fibre-reinforced composite material in laminar form. The invention further relates to a fibre-reinforced composite ceramic material, obtained by forming and subsequent pyrolysis of a pre-impregnated fibre-reinforced composite material, as well as a method for making said material.

A ferrite ceramic composition includes, as main components, from 27.0 mol % to 41.0 mol % of Fe in terms of Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, from 16.0 mol % to 24.0 mol % of Ni in terms of NiO, from 23.0 mol % to 37.0 mol % of Zn in terms of ZnO, from 5.0 mol % to 9.0 mol % of Cu in terms of CuO, and from 4.0 mol % to 14.0 mol % of Si in terms of SiO.sub.2, and as sub-components, relative to 100 parts by mass of the main components, from 0.3 parts by mass to 1.2 parts by mass of Bi in terms of Bi.sub.2O.sub.3, from 0.3 parts by mass to 1.2 parts by mass of Co in terms of Co.sub.3O.sub.4, from 0.01 parts by mass to 0.25 parts by mass of Mn in terms of Mn.sub.2O.sub.3, and from 0.003 parts by mass to 0.030 parts by mass of Cr in terms of Cr.sub.2O.sub.3.

The disclosure relates to sintered ceramic grains comprising 3-55 wt. % alumina, 40-95 wt. % zirconia and 1-30 wt. % of one or more other inorganic components. The invention further relates to a method for preparing ceramic grains according to the invention, comprising: making a slurry comprising alumina, zirconia; making droplets of the slurry; introducing the droplets in a liquid gelling-reaction medium wherein the droplets are gellified; drying the gellified deformed droplets.

Disclosed is a pottery greenware material by which a pottery having both productivity and quality can be produced with a high degree of freedom depending on an intended use thereof. The pottery greenware material includes a first greenware material and a second greenware material; both the first greenware material and the second greenware material including, as chemical species, SiO.sub.2, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and either one or both of K.sub.2O and Na.sub.2O; and an average particle diameter (D2) of the second greenware material being smaller than an average particle diameter (D1) of the first greenware material.

Provided is a ferrite sintered magnet including: magnetoplumbite type ferrite crystal grains; and a two-grain boundary interposed between the ferrite crystal grains. The two-grain boundary contains Ca and La, and an atomic ratio Ca/La at the two-grain boundary is 0.3 to 3.0.