Ink-Jet Printing of Wax-Based Alumina Suspensions

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2514-2520

  Seerden, Kitty A M ^a   Reis, Nuno ^a,b   Evans, Julian R G ^c   Grant, Patrick S ^a   Halloran, John W ^d   Derby, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; CERAMIC MATERIALS; PARAFFIN WAXES; POLYESTERS; POWDERS; PRINTING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOSITY;

ALUMINA SUSPENSIONS; INK-JET PRINTING; STEARYLAMINE;

ALUMINA;

EID: 0035526577     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb01045.x     Document Type: Article

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