Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Materials

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: This first iteration of the symposium focused on the synthesis and processing of inorganic materials using non-tradition technologies such as self-propagating high-temperature synthesis, spark plasma sintering, mechanical alloying, wet chemistry, aerosol deposition, lasers, electron beams, and high-field magnetrons. The 74 papers are arranged in sections on ceramics, low-dimensional materials, and materials with designed structure, reflecting the three concurrent sessions. Among their topics are the effect of water-soluble plasticizer on a barren raw material hard plastic extruding course, fabricating indium tin oxide targets by spark plasma sintering and hot-pressing sintering, synthesizing metastable tungsten carbide nanoparticles by a mechano-chemical alloying process, preparing boron nitride fibers by chemical reaction, sialite technology as a new process for the highly effective exploitation of industrial solid wastes, and the quasi-isenotropic compression characters of flier-plates with graded impedance.