A ferrite sintered magnet including ferrite grains having a hexagonal crystal structure. The ferrite grains satisfy 0.56≤W≤0.68 where W is an average value of circularities of the ferrite grains in a cross section parallel to an axis of easy magnetization.

Disclosed herein are ceramic materials, such as bismuth substituted garnets, which can have high curie temperatures and high dielectric constants. In certain implementations, indium can be incorporated into the ceramic to improve certain properties and to avoid calcium compensation. The ceramic materials disclosed herein can be particular advantageous for below resonance applications.

The proposed method relates to the processing of carbon-containing raw material and may be used to obtain products containing amorphous silica and amorphous carbon of varying degrees of purity. The technical result consists in simplifying the production of a product containing amorphous silica and increasing the yield efficiency for such a product by decreasing the temperature to which the carbon-containing raw material is exposed. The method of producing a product containing amorphous silica and amorphous carbon includes the steps in which a carbon-containing raw material is dried at a temperature of 150-200° C. and the dried raw material is subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of 400-600° C., wherein the heat treatment is performed in the presence of an activator made of a readily fusible alloy. A device for carrying out the method is also proposed.

The present application provide a silicon-oxygen compound, a secondary battery using it, and related battery modules, battery packs, and devices. The silicon-oxygen compound provided by the present application has a formula of SiO.sub.x, in which x satisfies 0<x<2. The silicon-oxygen compound contains both sulfur and aluminum element, and the sulfur element is present in an amount of 20 ppm˜300 ppm. The mass ratio of sulfur element to aluminum element is from 1.5 to 13.0. A secondary battery uses the silicon-oxygen compound provided in the present application, so that the secondary battery can have both long-cycle performance and high initial coulombic efficiency.

Fumed silica powder, surface treated with a surface treatment agent selected from the group consisting of organosilanes, silazanes, acyclic polysiloxanes, cyclic polysiloxanes, and mixtures thereof, wherein the powder has: a) a number of silanol groups relative to BET surface area d.sub.SiOH of at least 0.85 SiOH/nm.sup.2, as determined by reaction with lithium aluminium hydride; b) a methanol wettability of more than 40% by volume of methanol in methanol-water mixture; c) a tamped density of not more than 200 g/L.

A tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride having a chemical purity of greater than 99.95%. The tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride has a fraction of compounds selected from WCl.sub.6, WO.sub.2Cl.sub.2, WO.sub.3 and WO.sub.2, as defined as a ratio of a reflection having a highest intensity of one of WCl.sub.6, WO.sub.2Cl.sub.2, WO.sub.3 and WO.sub.2, (I(P2)100) in an x-ray diffraction pattern to a reflection having a highest intensity of the tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride (I(WOCl.sub.4)100) in the x-ray diffraction pattern, expressed as I(P2)100/I(WOCl.sub.4)100, of less than 0.03.

A process for preparing a porous carbon material. The process comprises the process steps: providing a carbon source; providing an amphiphilic species; contacting the carbon source and the amphiphilic species to obtain a precursor; and heating the precursor to obtain the porous carbon material; wherein the carbon source comprises a carbon source compound, wherein the carbon source compound comprises an aromatic ring having one or more attached OH groups and an ester link.

A hardly graphitizable carbonaceous material can be used in a negative electrode material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries (for example, a lithium ion battery) having not only high charge capacity but also high charge-discharge efficiency and being fully charged to be used and a method for producing the same. Such hardly graphitizable carbonaceous material may have an oxygen element content of 0.25% by mass or less.

An object of the present invention is to provide a powder of a CeO.sub.2—ZrO.sub.2-based complex oxide which enables to achieve an improvement in the purification performance at a low to middle temperature of an exhaust gas purification catalyst, and, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a powder of a CeO.sub.2—ZrO.sub.2-based complex oxide, wherein a pore volume with from-10-to-100-nm diameters after a heat treatment performed at 1,000° C. for 3 hours in an air atmosphere, is 0.35 mL/g or more, and wherein an amount of carbon dioxide desorbed after the heat treatment, as measured by a temperature programmed desorption method, is 80 μmol/g or more.

The invention concerns the area of ceramics an relates to a method for separating impurities from silicon carbide, said method being applicable to SiC powders from grinding sludges, and to temperature-treated and purified silicon carbide powder. The aim of the invention is to provide a method with which different impurities are substantially completely removed using a simple and economical process. This is achieved by a method in which pulverulent SiC waste products that have a mass percent of SiC of at least 50% and an average grain size d.sub.50 ranging from 0.5 to 1000 μm and have been subjected to a temperature treatment and cooled are mechanically treated and physically separated. The physically separated SiC powder is then divided into two fractions, one of which has a mass of impurities that is greater than the mass of impurities in the other fraction at least by a factor of 2.