Disclosed here is a method for producing a graphene macro-assembly (GMA)-fullerene composite, comprising providing a mixture of graphene oxide and water, adding a hydroxylated fullerene to the mixture, and forming a gel of the hydroxylated fullerene and the mixture. Also described are a GMA-fullerene composite produced, an electrode comprising the GMA-fullerene composite, and a supercapacitor comprising the electrode.

A slurry or slip composed of a dispersion medium and a dispersoid including sinterable raw material powder containing a complex oxide powder represented by the following formula (1):
(Tb.sub.1-x-yR.sub.xSc.sub.y).sub.3(Al.sub.1-zSc.sub.z).sub.5O.sub.12  (1)
wherein R is yttrium and/or lutetium, 0.05≤x<0.45, 0<y<0.1, 0.5<1-x-y<0.95, and 0.004<z<0.2 is prepared; the slurry or slip is subsequently enclosed in a mold container to be subjected to solid-liquid separation by centrifugal casting to mold a cast compact; the cast compact is dried thereafter; a dried compact is degreased; a degreased compact is sintered thereafter; and a sintered body is further subjected to a hot isostatic pressing treatment to obtain the transparent ceramic material composed of the sintered body of garnet-type rare earth complex oxide represented by the formula (1).

A manufacturing method of a plugged honeycomb structure including a plugging material preparing step of mixing a ceramic raw material, a pore former, a thickener, an organic binder, a dispersing agent, and water and preparing the plugging material which is slurried, to form the plugging portions, wherein the plugging material preparing step includes: a powder mixing step of mixing the ceramic raw material, the pore former, the organic binder and the dispersing agent each of which is constituted of powder, at predetermined blend ratios, a thickener mixing step of adding and mixing the thickener to a powder mixture obtained by the powder mixing step, and a kneading step of adding the water to a thickener added mixture obtained by the thickener mixing step, to perform kneading.

A method of forming an activated coating composition is disclosed. The method includes providing (a) boron nitride, (b) carbon, (c) aluminum oxide and (d) a liquid carrier. Each of the boron nitride, carbon and aluminum oxide are in particulate form. The coating composition is activated to form an activated coating composition. The activated coating composition includes active components having from about 60.0 wt % to about 90.0 wt % boron nitride, from about 16 wt % to about 24 wt % carbon and from about 4 wt % to about 6 wt % aluminum oxide. A coating method, coated substrate and activated coating composition are also disclosed.

This electrostatic chuck device (1) includes a base (11) having one main surface serving as a mounting surface (19) on which a plate-shaped sample is mounted, and an electrode for electrostatic attraction (13) provided on the side opposite to the mounting surface (19) in the base (11), in which the base (11) consists of a ceramic material as a forming material, and the ceramic material contains aluminum oxide and silicon carbide as main components thereof, and has a layered graphene present at a grain boundary of the aluminum oxide.

A polycrystalline YAG sintered body, wherein, when dimensions of a smallest rectangular solid surrounding a YAG sintered body are A mm×B mm×C mm, a maximum value (A, B, C) is 150 mm or less, a minimum value (A, B, C) is more than 20 mm and 40 mm or less, and an optical loss coefficient when light of a wavelength of 300 to 1500 nm (excluding wavelengths which result in absorption of light by an additive element) is transmitted therethrough is 0.002 cm.sup.−1 or less. Moreover, a polycrystalline YAG sintered body, wherein, when dimensions of a smallest rectangular solid surrounding a YAG sintered body are A mm×B mm×C mm, a maximum value (A, B, C) is more than 150 mm and 300 mm or less, a minimum value (A, B, C) is more than 5 mm and 40 mm or less, and an optical loss coefficient when light of a wavelength of 300 to 1500 nm (excluding wavelengths which result in absorption of light by an additive element) is transmitted therethrough is 0.002 cm.sup.−1 or less. An object of an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a large and transparent polycrystalline YAG sintered body and its production method.

A solid electrolyte having a garnet type crystal structure. The garnet type crystal structure contains Li, La, Zr, O and Ga and at least one element selected from Al, Mg, Zn and Sc.

One aspect of the present invention is a method for producing a composite, including a step of placing a porous boron nitride sintered body immersed in a resin composition under a pressurized condition and then placing the boron nitride sintered body immersed in the resin composition under a pressure condition lower than the pressurized condition, wherein the step is repeated a plurality of times.

A tungsten carbide powder contains tungsten carbide as a main component and chromium, in which, when mass concentrations of tungsten and chromium are measured at 100 or more analysis points randomly selected from a field of view of SEM observation of the tungsten carbide powder, a standard deviation σ of distribution of the ratio by percentage of the concentration of chromium to the total concentration of tungsten and chromium is 0.5 or less.

A method of making a refractory article is provided. The method includes: a) mixing a binder system, a refractory charge, and a second colloidal binder to form an aqueous slurry; b) casting the aqueous slurry into a mold; c) subjecting the mold containing the aqueous slurry to a temperature that is lower than a slurry casting temperature for a time sufficient to form a green strength article; and d) firing the green strength article at a temperature of at least 450° C. for a time sufficient to achieve thermal homogeneity, thereby forming a refractory article. Refractory articles made in accordance with the method have a unique combination of pore structure and mechanical properties.