An iron oxide powder includes a porous structure having the diameter of from 0.3 μm to 2 μm, wherein the iron oxide powder has an aluminum content of from 10 mol % to 80 mol %.

The present application discloses a method for fabricating a ceramic heating body with a porous heating film, which relates to technical field of fabricating method of heating body; the method including mixing, ball-milling, defoaming, molding and drying, sintering, paraffin filling, machining, coating, metalizing sintering, and electrode leading; the beneficial effects of the present application is simple in whole fabricating method, and by using a box furnace to sinter the green body under an oxidizing atmosphere and normal pressure, the fabricated ceramic heating body is heated uniformly and the heating efficiency is high.

A method of treating at least one silicon carbide fibre, the method including a) formation of a silica layer at the surface of a silicon carbide fibre having an oxygen content less than or equal to 1% in atomic percentage, the silica layer being formed by contacting this fibre with an oxidizing medium having a temperature greater than or equal to 50° C. and pressure greater than or equal to 1 MPa, and b) removal of the silica layer formed by hydrothermal treatment of the fibre obtained after implementation of step a) in which the fibre is treated with water at a pressure between saturating vapour pressure and 30 MPa and at a temperature less than or equal to 400° C.

The present disclosure provides a ceramic powder having low bulkiness and good dispersibility. In the ceramic powder, the volume ratio of aggregated particles having a particle diameter larger than a reference particle diameter is 35 vol. % or more and the volume ratio when ultrasonic dispersion treatment for 10 minutes at an oscillation frequency of 19.5 kHz and an output power of 10 W is applied is 4 vol. % or less. The reference particle diameter is a particle diameter equivalent to a cumulative 0.1 vol. % diameter from the large diameter side when the ceramic powder is subjected to ultrasonic dispersion treatment for 3 minutes at an oscillation frequency of 19.5 kHz and an output power of 150 W.

A zirconia ceramic includes the following elements: 60.5-70.5 wt % of Zr, 2.5-5.45 wt % of Y, 0.05-2.65 wt % of Al, 0.015-1.07 wt % of Si, and 0.34-2.8 wt % of M. M includes at least one of Nb or Ta. The zirconia ceramic has a phase composition which includes tetragonal zirconia, alumina and zirconium silicate. The total content of alumina and zirconium silicate is 0.2-12 wt %, and the content of the tetragonal zirconia is 84-99.3 wt %. The tetragonal zirconia includes a solid solution of zirconia formed with yttrium oxide and M.sub.xO.sub.y, x satisfies 1≤x≤3, and y satisfies 3≤y≤6.

A material for 3D printing is described. The material comprises a polymeric composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer; and from 50 to 99 wt. % ceramic particles comprising a metal, wherein at least 50% by weight of the particles have a diameter in a range from 10 to 100 μm; wherein the material has a dielectric strength of at least 5 kV/mm and/or a dielectric constant of at least 5.

A method includes molding a raw material powder containing a ceramic powder and a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature higher than room temperature into a shape by isostatic pressing and in which a raw material powder slurry is prepared by adding the ceramic powder and the thermoplastic resin to a solvent so that the thermoplastic resin is 2% by weight or more and 40% by weight or less with respect to a total weight of the ceramic powder and the thermoplastic resin, a cast-molded body is to formed by wet-casting the raw material powder slurry into a shape, dried, and subjected to first-stage isostatic press molding at a temperature lower than the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin, then this first-stage press-molded body is heated to the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin or above, and warm isostatic press (WIP) molding is performed.

Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.

A preparation method for an yttrium aluminum garnet continuous fiber. The method prepares a spinnable precursor sol by utilizing an Al.sub.13 colloidal particles contained alumina sol, γ-AlOOH nano-dispersion, yttria sol, glacial acetic acid and polyvinylpyrrolidone, then prepares a gel continuous fiber by adopting a dry spinning technique, and carries out a heat treatment to obtain the yttrium aluminum garnet continuous fiber.

A method for molding a ceramic material includes: mixing a ceramic powder, a resin, a curing agent and a solvent to obtain a raw material slurry for a ceramic material; injecting the raw material slurry into an elastic container; curing the resin in the raw material slurry injected into the elastic container to form a molded body having a desired shape; and demolding the molded body from the elastic container.