Fabrication of Highly Porous Alumina-Based Ceramics with Connected Spaces by Employing PMMA Microspheres as a Template

Highly porous alumina-based ceramics were fabricated by a slip casting method by employing polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) microspheres having different diameters as a template and MgO or SiC powder as a sintering aid and subsequent calcination at 1600∘C. Spherical pores reflecting the morphology of t...

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Main Authors: Kazutaka Kamitani, Takeo Hyodo, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Makoto Egashira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/601850