Bulletin of the Chinese Ceramic Society, Volume. 43, Issue 10, 3798(2024)

Modification and Spontaneous Coagulation Casting of Domestic Calcined Alumina Powder

LIAO Lixuan1...2, LIU Wenlong1, JI Haohao1, MAO Junyan1,2, ZHANG Jian1,2, MAO Xiaojian1,2, and WANG Shiwei12,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Al2O3 ceramics are the most widely used structural ceramics because of excellent mechanical properties, acid and alkali corrosion resistance and high quality-price-ratio. Due to serious agglomeration and high content of sodium and potassium impurities in domestic calcined Al2O3 powder, the preparation of Al2O3 ceramics with high performance relies heavily on imported powder. In this work, the Al2O3 powder produced by a domestic company was firstly disaggregated using ball milling, and the median particle size D50 of the powder was reduced from 1.88 μm to 0.90 μm. Afterwards, the impurity content in the powder was reduced by washing with water, and the Na content was reduced from 140×10-6 to 60×10-6, which was close to the level of the same grade powder abroad. Finally, Al2O3 ceramic green bodies were prepared by spontaneous coagulation casting using MgO and MgAl2O4 as sintering aids. It is found that the addition of MgO increases the slurry viscosity, while MgAl2O4 does not affect that, and both can effectively reduce the sintering temperature and inhibit the grain growth. And the average grain size is reduced from 41.10 μm to 10.64 μm, which improves the mechanical properties of Al2O3 ceramics. Through disaggregation and purification, the domestic Al2O3 powder can reach the same level as the Japanese Sumitomo Al2O3 powder with the best performance in the same grade.

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    LIAO Lixuan, LIU Wenlong, JI Haohao, MAO Junyan, ZHANG Jian, MAO Xiaojian, WANG Shiwei. Modification and Spontaneous Coagulation Casting of Domestic Calcined Alumina Powder[J]. Bulletin of the Chinese Ceramic Society, 2024, 43(10): 3798

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    Received: Mar. 18, 2024

    Accepted: Jan. 17, 2025

    Published Online: Jan. 17, 2025

    The Author Email: Shiwei WANG (swwang51@mail.sic.ac.cn)

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    CSTR:32186.14.

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