A ceramic precursor mixtures for extrusion and firing into porous ceramics. The ceramic precursor mixtures include ceramic beads and green inorganic shear binder agglomerates. The green inorganic shear binder agglomerates can include inorganic filler particles and a polymeric binder. The green inorganic shear binder agglomerates can deform under an applied shear stress during mixing and/or extrusion such that they are smeared into a plurality of interbead gaps between adjacent ceramic beads or pore former particles. During firing, the smeared green inorganic shear binder agglomerates can sinter and react to form ribbons extending between, and interconnecting adjacent ceramic beads.

The invention discloses a biologically active zirconia denture has a gradient structure, the gradient structure consisting of a biomimetic nano-gradient biologically active outer surface layer, the nano-gradient outer surface layer is composed of zirconia nanocrystals and a plurality of nanopores penetrating gradiently through the layer, a micron-gradient biocompatible inner layer, the micron-gradient inner surface layer is composed of zirconia microncrystals and a plurality of micronpores penetrating gradiently through the layer, a dense micron-gradient biocompatible matrix structure, a uniform gradient transition is formed at the interface between the nano-gradient outer layer and the micron-gradient inner layer, and the micron-gradient inner layer and the matrix. The invention has the advantages of high strength, high toughness, low friction coefficient, low abrasion to the teeth, good biocompatibility and biological activity.

The composite sintered body includes Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and MgAl.sub.2O.sub.4. The content of Al.sub.2O.sub.3 in the composite sintered body is not less than 95.5% by weight. The average sintered grain size of Al.sub.2O.sub.3 in the composite sintered body is not less than 2 μm and not greater than 4 μm. The standard deviation of sintered grain size distribution of Al.sub.2O.sub.3 in the composite sintered body is not greater than 0.35. The bulk density of the composite sintered body is not less than 3.94 g/cm.sup.3 and not greater than 3.98 g/cm.sup.3. In the composite sintered body, the ratio of amount of crystal phase of MgAl.sub.2O.sub.4 to that of Al.sub.2O.sub.3 is not less than 0.003 and not greater than 0.01.

A rock drill insert made of cemented carbide includes hard constituents of tungsten carbide (WC) in a binder phase of Ni—Cr, or Ni—Co—Cr, and a balance of WC and unavoidable impurities. The cemented carbide has a 3.5-18 wt % binder phase. The binder phase has >0 wt % Ni. The mass ratio Cr/(Ni+Co) is 0.02-0.19. A difference between the hardness at 0.3 mm depth at some point of the surface of the rock drill insert and the minimum hardness of the bulk of the rock drill insert is at least 30 HV3.

A polycrystalline diamond (PCD) construction has a first region of a first grade of PCD material; and a second region of a second grade of PCD material, the first region being at least partially peripherally surrounded by the second region, the first and second regions being bonded to each other by direct inter-growth of diamond grains to form an integral PCD structure and a substrate bonded to the first and/or second region(s) along an interface. The first grade of PCD differs from the second grade in one or more of diamond and metal network compositional ratio, metal elemental composition, or average diamond grain size, the first grade of PCD material having a larger average diamond grain size than the second grade of PCD material, and/or a smaller volume percentage of residual catalyst and/or binder in interstitial spaces between interbonded diamond grains than the PCD material of the second region.

A sintered Ni ferrite body having a composition comprising, calculated as oxide, 47.0-48.3% by mol of Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, 14.5% or more and less than 25% by mol of ZnO, 8.2-10.0% by mol of CuO, and more than 0.6% and 2.5% or less by mol of CoO, the balance being NiO and inevitable impurities, and having an average crystal grain size of more than 2.5 μm and less than 5.5 μm.

A coil device comprising a coil, and a ferrite core arranged in a hollow portion of the coil, and a resin covering them; the ferrite core being a Ni ferrite core having initial permeability μi of 450 or more at a frequency of 100 kHz and a temperature of 20° C., and an average crystal grain size of 5-9 μm, both of temperature-dependent inductance change ratios TLa and TLb and stress-dependent inductance change ratios PLa and PLb being −0.6% to +0.6%, and both of the sum of TLa and PLa and the sum of TLb and PLb being more than −1.0% and less than +1.0%; and an antenna comprising it.

The present disclosure is directed to nanocomposites comprising a co-sintered composition of a MXene crystal form composition and an inorganic oxide, or oxide-type ceramic and methods of making and using the same.

A red zirconium-oxide sintered body includes oxide of cerium, auxiliary metal oxide and oxide of zirconium, wherein the auxiliary metal oxide includes any one or a combination of at least two of oxide of yttrium, oxide of magnesium, oxide of calcium and oxide of ytterbium; the red zirconium-oxide sintered body satisfies conditions that the oxide of cerium has a content of 0.2˜1.5 mol %; the oxide of cerium comprises trivalent cerium oxide; a sum of contents of the oxide of cerium and the auxiliary metal oxide is 1.1˜2.5 mol %; and the sintered body has fracture toughness ≥8 MPa•m.sup.1/2. The zirconium-oxide sintered body has red appearance and toughness more than 8 MPa•m.sup.1/2, and can be used for products such as mobile phone backboards, ornaments and dial plates.

A zirconia sintered body is provided and includes yttria and zirconia, containing yttria by a content ranging from 4.5 mol % or more to 6.5 mol % or less and zirconia as the remainder, the total light transmittance of a 1-mm thick sample measured in compliance with JIS K 7361-1 being 46.5% or higher, the three-point bending strength being 700 MPa or higher, and a ratio of an integrated value for the total light transmittance to an integrated value for the parallel light transmittance of a 1-mm thick sample measured at the measurement wavelength ranging from 400 to 700 nm being 1.3% or less.