A method of producing an injection molding tool for molding an article includes producing a replica of the article using at least one of an additive manufacturing process, a solid freeform fabrication process, or a computer numerically controlled (CNC) process. A support block is configured to receive at least a portion of the replica and support the replica with at least one of an outer peripheral surface of the replica or an inner peripheral surface of the replica positioned at a spaced distance from a peripheral surface of the support block. The replica is supported inside the support block at the spaced distance, a ceramic resin material is introduced into the spaced distance and cured to form a ceramic shell insert, the insert is removed from the cavity, and the insert is positioned within the support block to form a part of a mold tool adapted for installation in a standard plastic injection molding machine.

Proppant particles formed from slurry droplets and methods of use are disclosed herein. The proppant particles can include a sintered ceramic material and can have a size of about 80 mesh to about 10 mesh and an average largest pore size of less than about 20 microns. The methods of use can include injecting a hydraulic fluid into a subterranean formation at a rate and pressure sufficient to open a fracture therein and injecting a fluid containing a proppant particle into the fracture, the proppant particle including a sintered ceramic material, a size of about 80 mesh to about 10 mesh, and an average largest pore size of less than about 20 microns.

There is provided a paste for use in producing a three-dimensional shaped article, the paste containing a solvent, a binder that is soluble in the solvent, support layer forming first particles, and a material having a decomposition temperature lower than a sintering temperature of the support layer forming first particles, in which the material is contained in a volume of greater than or equal to 20% and less than or equal to 60% with respect to a total volume of the support layer forming first particles and the material being 100%. By using such a paste, a highly accurate three-dimensional shaped article can be produced.

Agglomerated products formed from particulate materials and binder formulations having low molecular weight polymers (of 500 g/mol to 50,000 g/mol) in an aqueous or emulsion form, or having a blend of low molecular weight aqueous polymer and high molecular weight (of 500,000 g/mol to 50,000,000 g/mol) emulsion polymers, wherein the polymers are formed from water soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers, or monomer blends, chosen from one or more of acrylic acid, acrylamide, maleic acid, allyl sulfonate, silanated and/or hydroxamated acrylamide, or 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS), are disclosed herein as well as processes for agglomerating a particulate materials, and use of the binding agents for forming same.

An oriented alumina substrate for epitaxial growth according to an embodiment of the present invention includes crystalline grains constituting a surface thereof, the crystalline grains having a tilt angle of 0.1 or more and less than 1.0 and an average sintered grain size of 10 m or more.

The invention relates to a composition for preparing a green body for the manufacture of a refractory carbon-bonded product, a method for preparing such a green body and a green body prepared by such a method.

An object of the present invention is to provide an insulation sheet having high thermal conductivity in the in-plane direction. The present invention provides an insulation sheet comprising insulating particles and a binder resin, wherein, for the entire cross-section of the sheet perpendicular to the in-plane direction, the insulation sheet contains 75 to 97% by area of the insulating particles, 3 to 25% by area of the binder resin, and 10% by area or less of the voids.

A method of laser-curing and forming a honeycomb diamond grinding block made from fine-grained diamonds and a ceramic binding agent is provided. The method includes preparing a slurry, where components of the slurry, by mass ratios, include: 20-21 parts of photosensitive resin; 34.5-37 parts of aluminum-oxide powder; 4-5.5 parts of fine-grained diamond powder; 0.04-0.1 parts of a photoinitiator; a range of particle sizes of the fine-grained diamond powder is 6-8 m; stirring the slurry to allow all components in the slurry to be fully mixed with each other to obtain a first printing material; feeding the first printing material into a light-curing printer to perform light-curing 3D printing to obtain a precursor of a finished product; and performing, by a high-temperature furnace, a degreasing operation and a high-temperature sintering treatment on the precursor to obtain the finished product of the honeycomb diamond grinding block.

A unitary radome layer assembly is provided and includes a first nanocomposite formulation and a second nanocomposite formulation. The first and second nanocomposite formulations are provided together in a unitary radome layer with respective distribution gradients.

An optical window is provided and includes a core layer, a cladding layer and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) layer interposed between the core and cladding layers.