In this interview, Joanna Irrgeher and Thomas Prohaska, talk to AZoMaterials about the future of recycling technology-critical components from electronic waste. Accurate handheld XRF analysis is ...

Examples include calcium aluminate, sapphire, and alumina-zirconia. Calcium aluminate (CaAlO 3) is an aluminate ceramic used in refractory cements and shapes, as well as synthetic slag additions for ...

ZIRCAR Refractory Sheet Type RS-100 is a ceramic fiber reinforced structural alumina composite material with useful properties to 1260°C (2300°F). It has ...

If you’ve ever wanted to open up an IC to see what’s inside it, you have a few options. The ceramic packages with a metal lid will succumb to a hobby knife. That’s easy. The common epoxy ...

Although she doesn’t identify the material specifically, the material [Jo] got to handle was most likley not a metal at all, but a ceramic called aluminum oxynitride, composed of equal parts ...

Now in its 124th year, the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University has been a unique public/private partnership in higher education since its inception in 1900. The program attracts ...

Alcoa Corp. shares jumped as much as 10% in late trading as strong alumina prices boosted quarterly earnings to the highest in more than two years. Alumina futures extended a record rally this ...

The MFA program in Ceramic Art at Alfred University has a distinguished history as a center of ceramic art innovation, research and education. In our state-of-the-art facility, our funded 2-year ...

A crisis is brewing in the aluminium supply chain as shortages drive the price of the metal's critical ingredient, alumina, to an all-time high of $645 a ton, close to double the $330/t at the end ...

Alumina prices have soared to record highs this week, compressing margins at the world's aluminium smelters which convert the intermediate product into metal. The London Metal Exchange (LME) cash ...

The raw material is fed to refineries who make an intermediate product called alumina, which is then smelted into pure aluminum. Alumina futures in Shanghai also hit the highest since contracts ...