A method for manufacturing frying, grilling, baking, and/or cooking utensils involves creating a green body from powdery silicon carbide, carbon, fillers, binders, and additives using ceramic shaping methods such as pressing, isostatic pressing, hot pressing, casting, die casting, or injection molding. The green body is carbonized and subsequently infiltrated with a metallic silicon melt. Through a final infiltration firing, the green body, together with carbon, forms a silicon carbide bonding matrix, resulting in a dimensionally stable frying, grilling, baking, and/or cooking utensil of the highest stability without residual porosity and with a temperature resistance of up to 1,350? C. This method gives rise to the aforementioned cookware, produced through the described process.

In one aspect, the disclosed examples relate to a curable casting compound for producing plastics moulded parts. For example, the curable casting compound may include a binder component on the basis of a polymerisable monomer and a proportion of approximately 40% to approximately 85% by weight of one or more inorganic fillers. In one example, the casting compound includes an aluminosilicate as one of the inorganic fillers. Other examples are provided.

A method for producing a domestic appliance plate from a starting mixture. In order to provide a domestic appliance plate having a high resistance to thermal shock, good thermal insulation, and advantageous mechanical properties, at least magnesium silicate hydrate, kaolinite, calcined kaolinite, and aluminum oxide are used for the starting mixture.

A method for producing a domestic appliance plate from a starting mixture. In order to provide a domestic appliance plate having a high resistance to thermal shock, good thermal insulation, and advantageous mechanical properties, at least magnesium silicate hydrate, kaolinite, calcined kaolinite, and aluminum oxide are used for the starting mixture.

The present invention is directed at coatings for oven bake clay that when applied make the surface of the resulting object food safe. Among the many different possibilities contemplated, the coating may contain one or more food safe plastics that may be in particle form and may form suspensions or colloids when mixed with water, food safe oil or other food safe liquids to ease application. Among the many potential additional ingredients contemplated, the coating may contain one or more surfactants to improve the formation of a suspension or colloid or one or more food safe dyes so that the oven bake clay can be painted. Among the many methods of making the coating contemplated, the components may be mixed to form a suspension or colloid through one or more of agitation, stirring or sonication. It is further contemplated that the coating may be applied to an unbaked oven bake clay object and then baked or alternatively applied to a baked oven bake clay object and then re-baked.

An engineered stone includes a light transmitting mother material (I) and a phosphorescent chip (II). The light transmitting mother material (I) includes about 7 wt % to about 12 wt % of an unsaturated polyester resin (A) and about 88 wt % to about 93 wt % of a silica-containing compound (B) based on a total amount of the unsaturated polyester resin (A) and the silica-containing compound (B) of the light transmitting mother material (I), and further includes about 0.01 part by weight to about 1 part by weight of an organic/inorganic pigment (C) based on about 100 parts by weight of the unsaturated polyester resin (A). The phosphorescent chip (II) includes about 8 wt % to about 15 wt % of an unsaturated polyester resin (A), about 85 wt % to about 92 wt % of a silica-containing compound (B) based on a total amount of the unsaturated polyester resin (A) and the silica-containing compound (B) of the phosphorescent chip (II), and further includes about 2 parts by weight to about 10 parts by weight of a phosphorescent pigment (D) based on about 100 parts by weight of the unsaturated polyester resin (A). The silica-containing compound (B) includes about 20 wt % to about 30 wt % of a silica powder (b1) based on a total amount of the phosphorescent chip (II).

The present invention provides a bidirectional energy-transfer system comprising: a thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete, disposed in a structural object; a location of energy supply or demand that is physically isolated from, but in thermodynamic and/or electromagnetic communication with, the thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete; and a means of transferring energy between the structural object and the location of energy supply or demand. The system can be a single node in a neural network. The thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete includes a conductive, shock-absorbing material, such as graphite. Preferred compositions are disclosed for the thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete. The bidirectional energy-transfer system may be present in a solar-energy collection system, a grade beam, an indoor radiant flooring system, a structural wall or ceiling, a bridge, a roadway, a driveway, a parking lot, a commercial aviation runway, a military runway, a grain silo, or pavers, for example.

The present invention provides a bidirectional energy-transfer system comprising: a thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete, disposed in a structural object; a location of energy supply or demand that is physically isolated from, but in thermodynamic and/or electromagnetic communication with, the thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete; and a means of transferring energy between the structural object and the location of energy supply or demand. The system can be a single node in a neural network. The thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete includes a conductive, shock-absorbing material, such as graphite. Preferred compositions are disclosed for the thermally and/or electrically conductive concrete. The bidirectional energy-transfer system may be present in a solar-energy collection system, a grade beam, an indoor radiant flooring system, a structural wall or ceiling, a bridge, a roadway, a driveway, a parking lot, a commercial aviation runway, a military runway, a grain silo, or pavers, for example.

A self-cleaning composite material including the following composition: 50%-85% in weight of alumina trihydrate (ATH)-based mineral charges; 10%-30% of cross-linking polymer comprising polyester resin; photocatalytic Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) dispersed in the cross-linking polymer in a weight percentage from 0.05% to 5% with respect to the weight of the cross-linking polymer; compatibilizing agent for anchoring between the photocatalytic TiO2 and the cross-linking polymer, wherein the anchoring compatibilizing agent of the TiO2 is silane; and cross-linking monomers in order to obtain the reticulation of the cross-linking polymer by thermal or chemical polymerization.

A range of processes is described herein for the preparation of a range of gold nanoparticle (Au NP) ceramic glazes with traditional firing methods that represents significant efficiency and ecological advancements over existing methods and allows for the replacement of commercial ceramic colorant methods, while retaining the costly equipment and firing methods already used. The process allows for ceramic surface color while breaking standards for minimal amounts of transition metal colorant used. The nanoparticle-based glazes described here add new colors to the known ceramic surface palette and offers greater consumer safety as an alternative to existing coloring processes that use higher concentrations of toxic metal and an increased risk of metal leaching from the final ceramic vessel into its contents (e.g., soil, beverage, food).