Provided are a composite oxide powder from which dense solid electrolyte objects having a high ion conductivity can be produced and a method for producing the composite oxide powder. The composite oxide powder is composed of particles comprising lithium (Li), lanthanum (La), zirconium (Zr), and oxygen (O) and having a cubic garnet-type crystal structure, and has a volume particle size distribution in which the 50% diameter (D50) is 1,000 nm or smaller, the composite oxide powder having a pyrochlore phase content of 10 mass % or less.

A hard lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramic has an ABO.sub.3 structure with A sites and B sites. The PZT ceramic is doped with Mn and with Nb on the B sites and the ratio Nb/Mn is <2. A piezoelectric multilayer component having such a PZT ceramic and also a method for producing a piezoelectric multilayer component are also disclosed.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of doped and undoped spherical or spheroidal lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZO) powder products, and methods of production using microwave plasma processing, which can be incorporated into solid state lithium ion batteries. Advantageously, embodiments of the disclosed LLZO powder display a high quality, high purity stoichiometry, small particle size, narrow size distribution, spherical morphology, and customizable crystalline structure.

Set forth herein are processes and materials for making ceramic thin green tapes by casting ceramic source powders and precursor reactants, binders, and functional additives into unsintered thin green tapes in a non-reactive environment.

A turbine engine has: a first member (22) having a surface bearing an abradable coating, the abradable coating (36) being at least 90% by weight ceramic; and a second member (24) having a surface bearing an abrasive coating. The abrasive coating (56) has a metallic matrix (64) and a ceramic oxide abrasive (66) held by the metallic matrix, the first member and second member mounted for relative rotation with the abrasive coating facing or contacting the abradable coating. At least 50% by weight of the ceramic abrasive has a melting point at least 400K higher than a melting point of at least 20% by weight of the ceramic of the abradable coating.

The present invention relates to a method for additive manufacturing of a position sensitive colored ceramic article comprising: a) providing at least one flowable ceramic component; b) forming a green body by sequential deposition of the ceramic component provided in step a) and optionally a support material not intended to be part of the final article; c) position sensitive application of a coloring substance in a solvent to at least a part of the surface of the green body formed in step b), wherein the coloring substance is applied simultaneously to the sequential deposition; d) heat treatment or curing of at least a part of the green body surface obtained in step c); wherein the method steps a)-d) are at least performed once; e) optionally removing the support material from the green body; and f) sintering the green body to obtain the ceramic article; wherein the coloring substance is a dyestuff according to ISO 18451-1:2019(E). In addition, the present invention relates to a system adapted to perform the method and a control data set configured, when implemented in an additive manufacturing system, to cause the system to execute the steps of the inventive method.

A solid electrolyte ceramic material that includes sintered solid electrolyte particles containing, at least, lithium (Li), lanthanum (La), bismuth (Bi), and oxygen (O), wherein the Bi is at a higher concentration in a vicinity of a grain boundary of the sintered solid electrolyte particles than in a grain interior of the sintered solid electrolyte particles.

A nanoparticle cluster reduction method yields a new composition of matter including a large percentage (e.g., 75% or higher percentage) of primary nanoparticles in the new composition of matter. The particle reduction method reduces the size of nanoparticle clusters in material of the new composition of matter, allows particle reduction of specific nanoparticle cluster sizes, and allows particle reduction to primary nanoparticles. This new composition of matter can include a high permittivity and high resistivity dielectric compound. This new composition of matter, according to certain examples, has high permittivity, high resistivity, and low leakage current. In certain examples, the new composition of matter constitutes a dielectric energy storage device that is a battery with very high energy density, high operating voltage per cell, and an extended battery life cycle. An example method can include a controlled gas evolution reaction to reduce the size of nanoparticle clusters.

A ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrode. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric grains has a core-dual shell structure having a core and a dual shell. The dual shell includes a first shell surrounding at least a portion of the core, and a second shell surrounding at least a portion of the first shell, and a concentration of a rare earth element included in the second shell is more than 1.3 times to less than 3.8 times a concentration of a rare earth element included in the first shell.

A coated particle having excellent thermal expansion control and electrical insulation properties includes a core of a first inorganic compound containing a metal or semimetal element P; and a shell of a second inorganic compound containing a metal or semimetal element Q. The first inorganic compound satisfies 1, and the coated particles satisfy 2 and 3. 1: |dA(T)/dT| is ≥10 ppm/°C at T1 of -200° C. to 1,200° C. A is (an a-axis lattice constant of a crystal in the first inorganic compound)/(a c-axis lattice constant of a crystal in the first inorganic compound). 2: in XPS of a surface of each of the coated particles, a ratio of a number of atoms of Q contained in the shell to a number of atoms of P contained in the core t is 45 to 300. 3: an average particle diameter of each coated particle is 0.1 to 100 .Math.m.