An infrared selective radiation cooling nano-functional composition and a preparation method thereof, wherein the composition is prepared from silica, a rare earth silicate compound and a molybdate compound according to a mass ratio of 1:(0.5-2):(0.5-2) by ball milling and uniform mixing, and the silica, the rare earth silicate compound and the molybdate compound have high infrared selective radiation performance at 8-10 μm, 9-12 μm and 10-14 μm. The rare earth silicate and molybdate compound are prepared by a sol-gel and a high-temperature solid phase process according to stoichiometric ratios SiO.sub.2-(0.5-2)Re.sub.2O.sub.3-(0.1-1.0)Na.sub.2O (Re═La, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Er, Tm, Yb, Y or Sc) and RMoO.sub.4 (R═Mg, Ca, Sr or Ba). The infrared selective radiation cooling nano-functional composition prepares functional devices such as day and night double-effect radiation coolers to provide zero-energy cooling, energy saving and efficiency improvement functions for buildings, grain and oil stores, solar battery back plates and the like.

A mixture for coating a metal substrate to prevent or limit scale formation. The mixture comprises 20 to 90% by weight of at least one of: an oxide ceramic material, an aluminosilicate mineral or glass frit. The mixture further comprises 1 to 20% by weight of clay and 3 to 70% by weight of an alkali metal silicate.

A ceramic circuit board includes: a ceramic board; and an internal conductor disposed in the ceramic board, in which the ceramic board contains glass, a willemite filler, and an alumina filler, and an average particle diameter of the willemite filler is larger than an average particle diameter of the alumina filler.

A water-based paint includes a fine powder composition which includes fine powdery clay minerals comprising pyrophyllite and sepiolite, a fine powdery thixotropy support agent containing hydroxypropyl methylcellulose and comprising first and second agents having 2 percent by weight aqueous solution viscosities at 20° C. of 2400 mPa.Math.S to 4500 mPa.Math.S and 64000 mPa.Math.S to 90000 mPa.Math.S, respectively, and a fine powdery inorganic porous material comprising diatomaceous earth and zeolite. A thixotropic index when the fine powder composition is dispersed and dissolved in water is 3.0 to 4.0. The thixotropy support agent includes 67 to 91 percent by weight of the first agent and 9 to 33 percent by weight of the second agent.

A corrosion-resistant component configured for use with a semiconductor processing reactor, the corrosion-resistant component comprising: a) a ceramic insulating substrate; and, b) a white corrosion-resistant non-porous outer layer associated with the ceramic insulating substrate, the white corrosion-resistant non-porous outer layer having a thickness of at least 50 μm, a porosity of at most 1%, and a composition comprising at least 15% by weight of a rare earth compound based on total weight of the corrosion-resistant non-porous layer; and, c) an L* value of at least 90 as measured on a planar surface of the white corrosion-resistant non-porous outer layer. Methods of making are also disclosed.

Materials that seamlessly transition from opaque to transparent or translucent, such as advanced geopolymer-based ceramics to glass structures, which can be directly and seamlessly bonded without the use of an intermediate adhesive or use of a frame are disclosed. That is, a GP-based ceramic to glass structure can be bonded directly and seamlessly and without any mechanical joints, connective tissue or adhesives such as caulking or epoxy. Such ceramic to glass materials can be prepared by sintering an engineered geopolymer with glass to form the geopolymer-based advanced ceramic-glass structure in which the interface is visually abruptly or in which the material is a graded composition with a controlled transition from one material to the other.

A complex ceramic particle and ceramic composite material may be made of a pretreated coal dust and a polymer derived ceramic that is mixed together and pyrolyzed in a nonoxidizing atmosphere. Constituent portions of the particle mixture chemically react causing particles to increase in density and reduce in size during pyrolyzation, yielding a particle suitable for a plurality of uses including composite articles and proppants.

A powder formed of fused particles. More than 95% by number of the feed particles exhibiting a circularity of greater than or equal to 0.85. The powder contains more than 88% of a silicate of one or more elements chosen from Zr, Hf, Y, Ce, Sc, In, La, Gd, Nd, Sm, Dy, Er, Yb, Eu, Pr, Ho and Ta, less than 10% of a dopant, as percentage by weight based on the oxides. The powder has a median particle size D.sub.50 of less than 15 μm, a 90 percentile particle size, D.sub.90, of less than 30 μm, and a size dispersion index (D.sub.90-D.sub.10)/D.sub.10 of less than 2. The powder has a relative density of greater than 90%. The D.sub.n percentiles of the powder are the particle sizes corresponding to the percentages, by number, of n %, on the cumulative distribution curve of the size of the particles of the powder. The particle sizes are classified in increasing order.

A ceramic slurry for forming a ceramic article includes a binder, a first plurality of ceramic particles having a first morphology, a second plurality of ceramic particles having a second morphology that is different from the first morphology; and a photoinitiator. A method for using this slurry for fabricating ceramic articles is presented as well.

A metal oxide composition for use in ceramic bodies to form a ceramic whitener-opacifier composition is disclosed. The metal oxide composition includes one or more crystalline metal oxides or crystalline mixed metal oxides of Al, Ca, Mg, Si and Zr. The metal oxide composition includes at least (i) Al in an amount of from about 5 wt % to about 40 wt % measured as Al2O3, (ii) Ca in an amount of from about 10 wt % to about 30 wt % measured as CaO, (iii) Mg in an amount 5 of from about 0 wt % to about 25 wt % measured as MgO, (iv) Si in an amount of from about 10 wt % to about 25 wt % measured as SiO2, and (v) Zr in an amount of from about 15 wt % to about 35 wt % measured as ZrO.