A method of preparing an ITO ceramic target includes that: In.sub.2O.sub.3 powder with mass fraction of 90˜97 and SnO.sub.2 powder with mass fraction of 10˜3 are ball-milled and mixed with deionized water, diluent, binder and polymer material by a sand mill to obtain an ITO ceramic slurry with a solid content between 70˜80% and a viscosity between 120˜300 mpa.Math.s, with an average particle size D50 of the mixed powder controlled at 100˜300 nm; the ITO ceramic slurry is shaped by a pressure grouting to obtain an ITO ceramic green body with a relative density of 58˜62%; the ITO ceramic green body is put into a degreasing and sintering integrated furnace, and under a degreasing temperature of 700˜800° C., the ITO ceramic target is degreased in an atmospheric oxygen atmosphere for the time set to 12˜36 hours; the temperature increases from the degreasing temperature to the first sintering temperature of 1,600˜1,650° C.

The present application discloses and claims a method to make a flexible ceramic fibers (Flexiramics™) and polymer composites. The resulting composite has an improved mechanical strength (tensile) when compared with the Flexiramics™ alone. Several different polymers can be used, both thermosets and thermoplastics. Flexiramics™ has unique physical characteristics and the composite materials can be used for numerous industrial and laboratory applications.

According to an example, a composition may include a high melt temperature build material in the form of a powder; a first low melt temperature binder in the form of a powder; and a second low melt temperature binder in the form of a powder; and in which the first low melt temperature binder melts at a temperature that is different from the second low melt temperature binder.

A composition suitable for 3D printing. The composition is in the form of a filament and includes: a) a metal and/or ceramic powder: b) an organic binding phase including two parts: b1) at least one thermoplastic compound selected from thermoplastic polymers and waxes; and b2) at least one volatile organic compound which has a vapor pressure at 50° C., ranging from more than 0 bar to 0.05 bar, wherein the amount of the at least one volatile organic compound ranges from more than 0.5% to 40% (v/v) by volume relative to the total volume of the composition.

There is provided a ferrite powder for bonded magnets capable of producing ferrite bonded magnets with high BH.sub.max, excellent in MFR when converted to a compound, with high p-iHc, wherein an average particle size of particles obtained by a dry laser diffraction measurement is 5 μm or less, a specific surface area is 1.90 m.sup.2/g or more and less than 3.00 m.sup.2/g, a compression density is 3.40 g/cm.sup.3 or more and less than 3.73 g/cm.sup.3, and a compressed molding has a coercive force of 2800 Oe or more and less than 3250 Oe.

A multilayer laminate comprising in order, a polymeric film layer capable of withstanding a temperature of at least 200 C for at least 10 min, an adhesive layer having an areal weight of from 2 to 40 gsm capable of activation at a temperature of from 75 to 200 degrees C. and an inorganic refractory layer wherein the refractory layer comprises platelets in an amount at least 85% by weight with a dry areal weight of 15 to 50 gsm and has a residual moisture content of no greater than 10 percent by weight.

A polyamide powder for selective absorbing sintering, SAS, or selective inhibition sintering, SIS. The polyamide powder has a solution viscosity to ISO 307 of 1.8 to 2 and a rise in the solution viscosity of 0% to 25% when it is subjected to a temperature 20° C. below its melting temperature under air for 20 hours.

A binder solution comprises greater than or equal to 0.5 wt % and less than or equal to 20 wt % of nanoparticles, a thermoplastic binder, and a solvent. The nanoparticles may comprise metallic nanoparticles comprising nickel, silver, chromium, aluminum, cobalt, iron, or combinations thereof. The nanoparticles may comprise ceramic nanoparticles, the comprising alumina, aluminum nitride, zirconia, titania, silica, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, boron nitride, or combinations thereof. A method of manufacturing a part includes depositing a layer of particulate material on a working surface, applying a binder solution into the layer of particulate material in a pattern, repeating the steps of depositing and selectively applying to form a plurality of layers of particulate material with the applied binder solution, and curing the applied binder solution in the plurality of layers of particulate material with the applied binder solution to evaporate the solvent and thereby form a green body part.

A binder solution comprises a fugitive metal precursor, a thermoplastic binder, and a solvent. The fugitive metal precursor may comprise an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a post-transition metal, a metalloid, a rare earth metal, or combinations thereof. The fugitive metal precursor may comprise a salt such as carboxylate, nitrate, sulfate, carbonate, formate, chloride, halide, derivatives thereof, and combinations thereof. A method of manufacturing a part includes depositing a layer of particulate material on a working surface, selectively applying a binder solution into the layer of particulate material in a pattern representative of a layer of the part, repeating the steps of depositing and selectively applying to form a plurality of layers of particulate material with the applied binder solution, and curing the applied binder solution in the plurality of layers of particulate material with the applied binder solution to evaporate the solvent and form a green body part.

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.