Ceramics based on group IV-V transition metal borides and carbides possess melting points above 3000 °C, are ablation resistant and are, therefore, candidates for the design of components of next generation space vehicles, rocket nozzle inserts, and nose cones or leading edges for hypersonic aerospace vehicles. As such, they will have to bear high thermo-mechanical loads, which makes strength a...

Metallocene of zirconium were used as a catalyst for an insertion polymerization of 1-methylsilene directly into pre-ceramic precursor polyzirconocenecarbosilane (PZCS) during dechlorination of dichlorodimethylesilane by sodium, which exhibits high catalytic effectiveness with the maximum conversion ratio of polycarbosilane up to 91%. The average molecular weights of polymers synthesized are le...

The ablation of ultra-high-temperature ceramics (UTHCs) is a complex physicochemical process including mechanical behavior, temperature effect, and chemical reactions. In order to realize the structural optimization functional design ultra-high ceramics, coupled thermo-chemomechanical bond-based peridynamics (PD) model proposed based on ZrB2 oxidation kinetics thermomechanical peridy...

Ultra-low ESR capacitors such as ceramics are highly desirable because they can support fast-changing load transients and also bypass very high frequency noise coming from switching converter power sources, which a linear regulator can not reject. However, using ultra-low ESR capacitors on the output of an LDO regulator requires that specific design changes be implemented to ensure loop stability.

High density ceramics of the system Bi1-xLaxFeO3, 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15, have been prepared starting from nanoparticles obtained by mechanosynthesis. The ceramics have been sintered conventionally at 850oC and by spark plasma sintering (SPS). Sintering conditions have been optimized to obtain single phase ceramics, and the microstructure of the ceramics has been compared. Ceramics prepared conventionall...