A novel metal oxide or a novel sputtering target is provided. A sputtering target includes a conductive material and an insulating material. The insulating material includes an oxide, a nitride, or an oxynitride including an element M1. The element M1 is one or more kinds of elements selected from Al, Ga, Si, Mg, Zr, Be, and B. The conductive material includes an oxide, a nitride, or an oxynitride including indium and zinc. A metal oxide film is deposited using the sputtering target in which the conductive material and the insulating material are separated from each other.

A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 30% by volume or more and 80% by volume or less of cubic boron nitride grains and 20% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less of a binder phase, the cubic boron nitride grains having a dislocation density of 3×10.sup.17/m.sup.2 or more and 1×10.sup.20/m.sup.2 or less.

The cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 30% by volume or more and 80% by volume or less of cubic boron nitride grains and 20% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less of a binder phase, the cubic boron nitride grains having a dislocation density of 1×10.sup.15/m.sup.2 or more and 1×10.sup.17/m.sup.2 or less.

A fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor, a fuel rod of the fuel assembly, and a ceramic nuclear fuel pellet of the fuel rod are disclosed. The fuel pellet includes a first fissile material of UB.sub.2, The boron of the UB.sub.2 is enriched to have a concentration of the isotope .sup.11B that is higher than for natural B.

The invention relates to a grain for production of a refractory product, to the use of such grains, to a refractory product, to a process for producing a refractory product and to a refractory product produced thereby.

The present disclosure is directed to nanocomposites comprising a co-sintered composition of a MXene crystal form composition and an inorganic oxide, or oxide-type ceramic and methods of making and using the same.

The present invention relates to a nitrogen-doped sulfide-based solid electrolyte for all-solid batteries. The a nitrogen-doped sulfide-based solid electrolyte for all-solid batteries includes a compound with an argyrodite-type crystal structure represented by the following Formula 1:
Li.sub.aPS.sub.bN.sub.cX.sub.d  [Formula 1] wherein 6≤a≤7, 3<b<6, 0<c≤1, 0<d≤2, and each X is the same or different halogen atom selected from the group consisting of chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), and iodine (I).

A transparent ceramic material is manufactured by molding a source powder into a compact, the source powder comprising a rare earth oxide consisting of at least 40 mol % of terbium oxide and the balance of another rare earth oxide, and a sintering aid, sintering the compact at a temperature T (1,300 C.T1,650 C.) by heating from room temperature to T1 (1200 C.T1T) at a rate of at least 100 C./h, and optionally heating from T1 at a rate of 1-95 C./h, and HIP treating the sintered compact at 1,300-1,650 C. The ceramic material has improved diffuse transmittance in the visible region and functions as a magneto-optical part in a broad visible to NIR region.

An ink formulation for additive manufacturing of low density syntactic foams is described. The ink formulation can include a thermoset resin, a curing agent suitable for use with the thermoset resin, a plurality of hollow spheres, such as glass microballoons, one or more solvents, and one or more non-hollow, viscosity modifying filler. Also described are a method of preparing the ink formulation, a method of preparing three-dimensional objects comprising low density syntactic foams, and the three-dimensional objects prepared thereby.

In an embodiment a ceramic material includes ZnO as main constituent, Y as a first additive, second additives including at least one compound containing a metal element, wherein the metal element is selected from the group consisting of Bi, Cr, Co, Mn, Ni and Sb, Si.sup.4+ as a first dopant and second dopants having at least one compound containing a metal cation from Al.sup.3+, B.sup.3+, or Ba.sup.2+, wherein a corresponds to a molar proportion of Bi calculated as Bi.sub.2O.sub.3, b corresponds to a molar proportion of Y calculated as Y.sub.2O.sub.3, c corresponds to a molar proportion of Al calculated as Al.sub.2O.sub.3, d corresponds to a molar proportion of Ba calculated as BaO, e corresponds to a molar proportion of B calculated as B.sub.2O.sub.3, f corresponds to a molar proportion of Si calculated as SiO.sub.2, g corresponds to a molar proportion of Ni calculated as NiO, h corresponds to a molar proportion of Co calculated as Co.sub.3O.sub.4, i corresponds to a molar proportion of Cr calculated as Cr.sub.2O.sub.3, j corresponds to a molar proportion of Sb calculated as Sb.sub.2O.sub.3, and k corresponds to a molar proportion of Mn calculated as Mn.sub.3O.sub.4.