A hierarchical porous material consists of multistage porous materials, comprising a material body, the body is formed bar a pore cavity graded according to the pore size of the material and a cavity wall surrounding to form the pore cavity. The pore cavities are uniformly distributed. The characteristics are as follows. A lower-level pore cavities are disposed on the cavity wall of an upper-level pore cavity formed by surrounding a three-dimensional space. Each level of pore cavities are mutually connected and the pore cavities within same level are also connected with each other. The uniform distribution of the pore cavities means that similar amount of pore cavities are distributed under any unit volume of the hierarchical porous material. The hierarchical structure of the cavity of the material enables it to meet a wide range of functional requirements.

A method for producing an oriented sintered body according to the present invention includes the steps of: (a) preparing a multilayer body, the multilayer body including a layer including a fine raw-material powder and a layer including a plate-like raw-material powder which are alternately stacked each other, particles of the plate-like raw-material powder being arranged such that surfaces of the particles of the plate-like raw-material powder extend along a surface of the layer including a fine raw-material powder; and (b) sintering the multilayer body.

The subject of the present invention is a method for processing metallized packaging materials, especially beverage cartons, or blister packaging. According to the invention, the aluminum is dissolved with the aid of acid and separated from the plastic. The metal-containing acid solution then undergoes pyrohydrolytic treatment and the acid is thus recovered. The aluminum can be recovered as valuable aluminum oxide.

Layered double hydroxides organo-modified by 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid (HPPA), by 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethylsulfonic acid or by a hydroxyphenylpropenoic acid, and to composite polymer materials having same. The composite materials are advantageously made of biosourced polymers such as poly(butylene succinate). These composite materials have improved properties over the polymers that make up the composition thereof, and over the composites of the prior art.

Disclosed is a method for producing a porous monolithic material from at least one powder, preferably mineral, the method including at least one step of low-temperature compression of a mixture based on powder and at least one solvent, preferably water. The materials produced by the method have improved mechanical properties compared to the prior art materials. The materials for medical application, such as hydroxyapatite, also have improved biocompatibility compared to the prior art materials. Also disclosed are materials produced by the method.

A method of reducing the ammonia emission from an aluminium oxide comprises the step of contacting secondary aluminium oxide with a zeolite. Preferably the zeolite is a used or unused fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst such as zeolite Y. The invention also relates to a mixture comprising secondary aluminium oxide and a zeolite, wherein the zeolite is a used or unused fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst and that the composition has a gaseous ammonia emission of 1 mg NH.sub.3 per gram of composition and hour. Lastly, the invention is directed towards the use of a zeolite for reducing the ammonia emission from secondary aluminium oxide.

The present invention relates to aluminium trihydroxide compositions. The present invention also relates to methods of forming aluminium trihydroxide compositions.

The present invention relates to aluminium trihydroxide compositions. The present invention also relates to methods of forming aluminium trihydroxide compositions.

This invention relates to a method for preparing a lithium activated alumina intercalate solid by contacting a three-dimensional activated alumina with a lithium salt under conditions sufficient to infuse lithium salts into activated alumina for the selective extraction and recovery of lithium from lithium containing solutions, including brines.

The invention relates to sodium-ion-conducting elements for use in electrochemical cells, more particularly as solid electrolyte/separator in high-temperature batteries. In these elements, a surface of a porous substrate bears a coating which is obtained by sintering at a temperature of not more than 1100 C. and which is formed with the system Na.sub.2OSiO.sub.2R.sub.2O.sub.5R1.sub.2O.sub.3, in which R1=Sc, Y, La and/or B and R2=P, Sb, Bi, Sn, Te, Zn and/or Ge.