To provide at least one of a sintered body with both high dynamic strength and high static strength, a method for producing the sintered body, a powder and a calcined body. A sintered body of zirconia, wherein the zirconia contains a stabilizing element, the stabilizing element contains at least one rare-earth element other than yttrium, and the sintered body has an average grain size of 0.05 m or more and 0.75 m or less and has a plastic deformable region.

Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries may include a battery cell component that may be or include a ceramic layer produced by methods including admixing a ceramic with a water-soluble dispersant to form a first mixture. The methods may include admixing an organic polymeric dispersant with the first mixture to form a second mixture. The methods may include admixing a binder with the second mixture to form a slurry. The methods may also include depositing the slurry on a substrate.

A plate-like alumina particle containing a coloring component is provided. A plate-like alumina particle containing molybdenum, silicon, and a coloring component. A method for manufacturing the plate-like alumina particle, the method including the steps of mixing an aluminum compound containing an aluminum element, a molybdenum compound containing a molybdenum element, silicon or a silicon compound, and a coloring component so as to produce a mixture and calcining the resulting mixture.

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a green multilayer sol-gel ceramic membrane for the separation of gaseous CO.sub.2 from natural gas. For being composed solely of ceramic materials (silica and alumina), the ceramic membrane developed by the proposed process has high chemical, physical and mechanical stability as its main characteristics. These characteristics ensure its usefulness in the process of separating CO.sub.2 from natural gas, even in streams having high CO.sub.2 concentrations and under high pressure; the developed membrane further enables backwashing operations to be carried out, when needed.