A method for producing an article containing silicon carbide as the main constituent includes a plurality of sets of steps of forming a layer of a raw material powder and irradiating the layer with laser light according to three-dimensional model data. The low material powder is a mixture of silicon carbide powder, metallic silicon powder, and carbon powder. The laser light used in the step of irradiation with laser light has a spatial laser power density of 11 J/mm.sup.3 to 50 J/mm.sup.3.

A method for densifying one or more porous substrates with pyrolytic carbon by chemical vapour infiltration, includes admitting, at the inlet of the densification furnace, a reactive gaseous phase including at least one pyrolytic carbon precursor; reacting at least a fraction of the reactive gaseous phase with the porous substrate or substrates; extracting, at the outlet of the densification furnace, gaseous effluents originating from the reactive gaseous phase; reintroducing, with the reactive gaseous phase admitted at the inlet of the densification furnace, at least a fraction of the gaseous effluents extracted at the outlet of the furnace, wherein the fraction of the gaseous effluents introduced with the reactive gaseous phase includes at least one polyaromatic hydrocarbon compound.

The present application discloses a conductive high-strength diamond/amorphous carbon composite material and a preparation process thereof. The diamond/amorphous carbon composite material is composed of an amorphous carbon continuous phase and multiple separate diamond phases embedded in the amorphous carbon continuous phase, wherein the diamond phases exhibit an ordered sp3 hybrid state, and the amorphous carbon continuous phase exhibits a disordered sp2 hybrid state. The present application further discloses a process for preparing the above diamond/amorphous carbon composite material. The process comprises using sp3 carbon powder or glassy carbon as a raw material to obtain the above-mentioned material by sintering. The diamond/amorphous carbon composite material shows good electrical conductivity, good electrical discharge machining ability, good chemical stability and light weight, and has broad application prospects in aerospace, automobile industry and biomedical equipment.

A method for injecting a loaded suspension into a fibrous texture having a three-dimensional or multilayer weaving includes the injection of a suspension containing a powder of solid particles into the volume of the fibrous texture. The injection of the loaded suspension is carried out by at least one hollow needle in communication with a loaded suspension supply device, each needle being movable in at least one direction extending between a first face and a second opposite face of the fibrous texture so as to inject the loaded suspension at one or more determined depths in the fibrous texture.

A wafer boat according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of support columns, each having a pillar shape and comprising a plurality of grooves configured to have a wafer placed thereon, and support plates configured to support both end portions of the plurality of support columns, respectively. Each of the plurality of support columns are formed of a ceramic containing aluminum oxide or silicon carbide as a main constituent, and an outer side surface of the plurality of support columns is a ground surface and/or a polished surface.

The present invention relates to a glass including, represented by mole percent based on oxides: from 52% to 80% of SiO.sub.2; from 5% to 30% of B.sub.2O.sub.3; from 2% to 30% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3; from 0.1% to 11% of P.sub.2O.sub.5; and from 0.0001% to 5% of Na.sub.2O, in which the glass has an average thermal expansion coefficient α at from 50° C. to 350° C. of from 5×10.sup.−7/° C. or more and 33×10.sup.−7/° C. or less.

The present invention describes various aspects of an inexpensive, renewable and sustainable particulate material system which is basically composed of one or more carbon precursor materials and other powder-based constituents. There is also an in-detail description of the composition of the preferred particulate material system and steps involved in manufacturing high-performance carbon composite articles using commercial binder jetting powder-based 3D printers. The preferred particulate material system composition of the present invention can be equal in performance to typical binder jetting 3D printing powders but much less expensive.

A method for making a carbon carbon, carbon ceramic matrix, or carbon silica composite, comprising melt processing a resin comprising a polyaryletherketone (PAEK) and at least one reinforcing additive to make a precursor part, pyrolyzing the precursor part to make a pyrolyzed part, infusing a liquid second resin into the pyrolyzed part to make an infused part, and pyrolyzing the infused part. Other methods comprise processing aligned reinforcing additives and a resin comprising a PAEK to make an aligned reinforcing additives PAEK, aligned 1-2 dimensional flake material, or aligned 1-2 dimensional platelet material, to create a fabric, prepreg or tape comprising the aligned reinforcing additives and impregnated PAEK. Other methods comprise impregnating continuous fiber tape or fabric with a resin comprising PAEK and at least one reinforcing additive or co-weaving a continuous fiber or fabric with a PAEK fiber comprising PAEK and at least one reinforcing additive.

A reaction-bonded silicon carbide (SiC) body is produced by: providing a preform including ceramic elements and carbon, and one or more surface features; providing a powder which includes diamond particles and carbon; locating the powder in the surface feature(s); and infiltrating the preform and the powder with molten silicon (Si) to form reaction-bonded SiC in the preform, and to form reaction-bonded SiC coatings on the diamond particles. The present disclosure also relates to a device/component which includes: a main body portion and discrete elements located at least partially within the main body portion. The main body portion may include reaction-bonded SiC and Si, but not diamond, while the discrete elements include diamond particles, reaction-bonded SiC coatings surrounding the diamond particles, and Si. According to the present disclosure, diamond may be advantageously located only where it is needed.

This document describes processes for preparing ceramics, especially lithium-based ceramics. The ceramics produced by this process and their use in electrochemical applications are also described as well as electrode materials, electrodes, electrolyte compositions, and electrochemical cells comprising them.