Disclosed herein are methods for making a sealed device (200), the methods comprising positioning a sealing layer comprising at least one metal between a first glass substrate (201a) and a second substrate (201b) to form a sealing interface; and directing a laser beam operating at a predetermined wavelength onto the sealing interface to form at least one seal (207) between the first and second substrates and to convert the at least one metal to metal nanoparticles. Sealed devices having a seal comprising metal nanoparticles having a particles size of less than about 50 nm are also disclosed herein, as well as display devices comprising such sealed devices.

Methods of forming a polycrystalline table may involve disposing a plurality of particles comprising a superabrasive material, a substrate comprising a hard material, and a catalyst material in a mold. The plurality of particles may be partially sintered in the presence of the catalyst material to form a brown polycrystalline table having a first permeability attached to an end of the substrate. The substrate may be removed from the brown polycrystalline table and catalyst material may be removed from the brown polycrystalline table. The brown polycrystalline table may then be fully sintered to form a polycrystalline table having a reduced, second permeability. Intermediate structures formed during a process of attaching a polycrystalline table to a substrate may include a substantially fully leached brown polycrystalline table. The substantially fully leached brown polycrystalline table may include a plurality of interbonded grains of a superabrasive material.

A ceramic matrix composite laminate comprises a ceramic matrix that encapsulates a plurality of layers. Each layer comprises fibers. Each layer comprises a plurality of fill fibers and a plurality of warp fibers or a plurality of bias fibers. The outermost layer contains a different concentration of fibers per unit volume than a layer located near an interior of the ceramic matrix composite laminate. A gradient in the number of fibers exists between the outermost layer and the layer located at the interior of the ceramic matrix composite laminate, or a combination thereof. A combined ceramic matrix composite comprises a plurality of composite laminates; wherein each laminate has a different fiber concentration gradient from another laminate that it is in contact with.

According to a method set forth herein a plurality of preform plies having first and second preform plies can be associated together to define a preform. The preform can be subject to chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) processing to define a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) structure.

Chemical methods, optionally in combination with physical methods, may be used to increase the strength of the bond formed by a braze material between a polycrystalline material and a hard composite. Such polycrystalline materials brazed to hard composites may be found in various wellbore tools include drill bit cutters. An exemplary method may include forming a bonding layer on a bonding surface of a polycrystalline material body that comprises a hard material, the bonding surface opposing a contact surface of the polycrystalline material body, and the bonding layer substantially formed by a [111] crystal structure of the hard material, a [100] crystal structure of the hard material, or a combination thereof; and brazing the bonding layer to a hard composite using a braze material.

Polycrystalline diamond compacts (PDCs) and methods of manufacturing such PDCs. In an embodiment, the PDC includes a polycrystalline diamond (PCD) table having at least a portion of a metal-solvent catalyst removed therefrom. Removing at least a portion of a metal-solvent catalyst from the PCD table may increase the porosity of the PCD table relative to a PCD table that has not been treated to remove the metal-solvent catalyst. Likewise, removing at least a portion of a metal-solvent catalyst from the PCD table may decrease the specific magnetic saturation and increase the coercivity of the PCD table relative to a PCD table that has not been treated to remove the metal-solvent catalyst.

The invention relates to a termination device of a tubular reactor comprising at least one separation element adapted for the separation of solid particles and gaseous effluents and at least one coupling element that is part of an end of said tubular reactor, said separation element being connected to said coupling element, characterized in that each element of the termination device is made of ceramic material. The invention also relates to a tubular reactor, having a vertical or substantially vertical axis, of a fluid catalytic cracking unit equipped with a termination device according to the invention and to a corresponding fluid catalytic cracking unit.

Disclosed herein are electrically conductive and hermetic vias disposed within an insulator substrate of a feedthrough assembly and methods for making and using the same. Such aspects of the present invention consequently provide for the miniaturization of feedthrough assemblies inasmuch as the feedthrough components of the present invention are capable of supporting very small and hermetic conductively filled via holes in the absence of additional components, such as, for example, terminal pins, leadwires, and the like.

A cutting tool includes a supporting body and a cBN or PCD cutting edge tip attached to the supporting body via a 5-150 ?m braze joint. The supporting body is cemented carbide having 3-25 wt % of a metallic binder, optionally up to 25 wt % of carbides or carbonitrides of one or more elements of group 4, 5, or 6, and the rest WC. The metallic binder includes at least 40 wt % Ni, and the braze joint has, in the order from the supporting body, a first layer of TiC situated next thereto, with an average thickness of 10-400 nm, a second layer, with an average thickness of 0.5-8 ?m, having in average at least 5 wt % metallic Ni, in average 25-60 wt % metallic Cu and in average 15-45 wt % metallic Ti, and a third layer, with an average thickness of 4-145 ?m, having metallic Ag and metallic Cu.

A ceramic-metal temporary bonding body to inhibit breakage and degradation of a ceramic resin composite having low strength includes: a ceramic resin composite in which a non-oxide ceramic sintered body is impregnated with a thermosetting resin composition having cyanate groups in such a manner that a degree of cure calculated by differential scanning calorimetry is 5.0% or more and 70% or less; and a metal plate temporarily bonded to at least one surface of the ceramic resin composite. A shear bond strength between the ceramic resin composite and the metal plate is 0.1 MPa or more and 1.0 MPa or less.