Flame Spray Pyrolysis of Precursors as a Route to Nano-mullite Powder: Powder Characterization and Sintering Behavior

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 951-961

  Baranwal, Rita ^a,b   Villar, Maria P ^c   Garcia, Rafael ^c   Laine, Richard M ^b  

^a BECHTEL BETTIS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; FLAME SPRAYING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POWDERS; PYROLYSIS; SINTERING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE INFRARED FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY; FLAME SPRAY PYROLYSIS; NANO-MULLITE POWDER;

PORCELAIN;

EID: 0035353963     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb00774.x     Document Type: Article

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