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Application of Silica Sol-Gel in Colloidal Forming of Ceramics

LUO Jie-Sheng; XIE Zhi-Peng; MA Jing-Tao; HUANG Yong; CHENG Yi-Bing   

  1. 1. Department of Materials Science & Engineering State Key Laboratory of New Ceramic and Fine Processing Tsinghua University; Beijing 100084; China; 2. School of Physics and Materials Engineering; Monash University; Clayton; Victoria 3800; Australia
  • Received:2002-11-04 Revised:2003-01-22 Published:2003-11-20 Online:2003-11-20

Abstract: A novel colloidal forming processing of ceramics was investigated. The characteristic of silica
sol-gel was applied successfully to colloidal forming of ceramics. The process is based on the casting of the slurry, containing powder and silica sol
prepared by hydrolysis of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) at pH 12.8. Then the mixture forms gelled parts through silica sol-gel. Ceramic green parts
with strength of 5MPa can be obtained by this method. The forming process has advantages of low toxicity and high consolidation rate.

Key words: ceramics, colloidal forming, silica sol, tetraethoxysilane

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