Synthesis of an Aluminium-Zirconia Composite through Powder Metallurgy and Sol-Gel

Hydrothermal synthesis of nano-size zirconia using commercial zirconia powder: process optimization through response surface methodology

A hydrothermal method for preparation of nano-size zirconia has been studied to optimize the effective parameters (precursor concentration, temperature and time) using response surface methodology (RSM). The synthesized zirconia samples were characterized through X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses to identify mean nano...

Synthesis and characterisation of hot extruded aluminium-based MMC developed by powder metallurgy route

Background: Improvement of the mechanical and tribological properties due to extrusion can be attributed to the improved density and excellent bond strength due to high compressive stress. Methods: To avoid the product defects mathematically contoured cosine profiled die was used for the thermomechanical treatment. Improvement of mechanical characterization like density, hardness, compression t...

synthesis of novel porous silica-apatite composite powder by sol – gel method

Synthesis of zirconium carbide nanoparticles by sol-gel method and determination of powder characteristics

In this study, zirconium carbide nanoparticles were synthesized by the sol-gel method in the alcoholic system. The sol was prepared in a three-component alkoxide-water-alcohol system based on the chemical sol-gel process under acidic conditions and at pH = 5. Zirconium n-propoxide, furfuryl alcohol were used as raw materials. After the hydrolysis process and formation of the gel, the initial po...

Sol-gel synthesis and characterization of alumina-15%mullite composite nanopowder

Homogeneous distribution of mullite in the matrix of alumina can be obtained through sol-gel method. In this work, nanopowder of alumina-mullite composite was synthesized with high homogeneity and high purity. So aluminum chloride hexahydrate and tetraethyl orthosilicate were used instead of alumina or mullite nanopowder. Studying the simultaneouse thermal analysis (STA) of mullite precursor re...