Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Outside of mold sintering or vitrifying of shaped inorganic... – Simultaneously burning – vaporizing – or melting of embedded...
Patent
1998-05-19
1999-12-21
Fiorilla, Christopher A.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Outside of mold sintering or vitrifying of shaped inorganic...
Simultaneously burning, vaporizing, or melting of embedded...
264614, 264621, 264642, 264125, 264219, C04B 3332
Patent
active
060045000
ABSTRACT:
A process for making ceramic composites includes the steps of: a) forming a polymer composition into a three-dimensional mold; b) filling said three-dimensional mold with one or more ceramic containing compositions; c) heating said filled mold to dry and sinter the ceramic; d) removing at least a portion of said three-dimensional mold thereby forming voids; and e) filling the voids with a second composition which has a piezoelectric coefficient which is substantially different from the piezoelectric coefficient of said ceramic structure. Steps a through e yield a controlled, non-random piezoelectric ceramic composite having 2-3, 3-2 or 3--3 connectivity with respect to the sintered ceramic and the second composition throughout the composite.
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Agarwala Mukesh
Bandyopadhyay Amit
Danforth Stephen C.
Janas Victor F.
Panda Rajesh K.
Fiorilla Christopher A.
Ritter John F.
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
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