Glazes used in traditional ceramic applications have become a very long way from the old days. They are now a fashion in the society to obtain such products with attractive types of glazes to express their level in the society.
Within the types of glazes, crystalline glazes are very expensive due its attractiveness and the difficulty to obtain the correct type of glaze.
What is crystalline glaze?
It is a glaze in which the glaze is matured appearing the crystals of it inside the glaze giving very pleasing appearance to the surface. This is very difficult to obtain technically.
Our team started the project to find a formula of a crystallized glaze for a ceramic body to identify a perfect formula for a given body while minimizing the cost of production.
(More details will be published very soon - Literature survey is going on)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Characterization of Materials
When engineering applications are considered such as powder metallurgy, advanced ceramics the body preparation is very critical step. Especially in ceramics, the powder preparation, compaction, characterization and processing is very important.
Among these steps, characterization is the analysis of materials in which we try to gather knowledge about a materials or identify a material. This is a very important step in engineering applications. Using that we can improve the quality of the products.
Among these steps, characterization is the analysis of materials in which we try to gather knowledge about a materials or identify a material. This is a very important step in engineering applications. Using that we can improve the quality of the products.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Metallurgy
Metallurgy is the field of metals, in which we study about how to make alloys and how to extract metals from the earth, mould making, powder preparation and so many things. Joining of materials is the other subject that is combined with metallurgy and also other subjects such as polymer and ceramics.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Nanotechnology Consumer Products
Nanotechnology is becoming the most commonly discussed technology and is now applied for various consumer products. With this technology, the lifetime and the quality of the products will be increased. Following are some of existing products produced using nanotechnology.
Scratching Surfaces
Nano car wax that fills in those tiny cracks more effectively and gives a shinier vehicle. There are also nano products available to keep eye-wear and other optical devices cleaner, dryer, and more durable.
Clothing World
pants that repel water and won’t stain shirts and shoe inserts that keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, and nano socks that don’t “stink” due to the inclusion of nanotech materials (nanosized sliver particles)
Multimedia
Nano-ceramic coatings are being utilized on photo quality picture paper to deliver sharper, higher quality “homemade” digital photo reproductions on your ink jet printer.
Electronics
Nanotechnology has enabled arcade size video games of yesteryear like Pong, Frogger, and PacMan to be replaced with very sophisticated home Playstations, X-Boxes, and Game Cubes that play “life like” Madden 2005, Grand Theft Auto, and Halo 2 video games.
Faster and more powerful computers, palm pilots (blackberries), flash drives, digital cameras and displays, cell phones, LCDs, LEDs, MP3’s, electronic ink displays, thin film batteries, and flexible electronics, etc...
Medicine
The biotech world also has many real world applications currently in use or under development that are, or will be, affecting our quality of life. Bandages embedded with silver nanoparticles are coming of age in the wound healing arena. And We now have drug delivery via a patch. A variety of time release thin films are now utilized on implantations into the human body (for example screws, joints, and stents) and these films are affecting the long term effectiveness of these devices.
These are very few nanotech applications. More can be found here
Scratching Surfaces
Nano car wax that fills in those tiny cracks more effectively and gives a shinier vehicle. There are also nano products available to keep eye-wear and other optical devices cleaner, dryer, and more durable.
Clothing World
pants that repel water and won’t stain shirts and shoe inserts that keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, and nano socks that don’t “stink” due to the inclusion of nanotech materials (nanosized sliver particles)
Multimedia
Nano-ceramic coatings are being utilized on photo quality picture paper to deliver sharper, higher quality “homemade” digital photo reproductions on your ink jet printer.
Electronics
Nanotechnology has enabled arcade size video games of yesteryear like Pong, Frogger, and PacMan to be replaced with very sophisticated home Playstations, X-Boxes, and Game Cubes that play “life like” Madden 2005, Grand Theft Auto, and Halo 2 video games.
Faster and more powerful computers, palm pilots (blackberries), flash drives, digital cameras and displays, cell phones, LCDs, LEDs, MP3’s, electronic ink displays, thin film batteries, and flexible electronics, etc...
Medicine
The biotech world also has many real world applications currently in use or under development that are, or will be, affecting our quality of life. Bandages embedded with silver nanoparticles are coming of age in the wound healing arena. And We now have drug delivery via a patch. A variety of time release thin films are now utilized on implantations into the human body (for example screws, joints, and stents) and these films are affecting the long term effectiveness of these devices.
These are very few nanotech applications. More can be found here
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