Ceramics - innovation
Current Research and Inovation
TWI's Ceramics Group has been actively involved in a number of innovations and developments in ceramics technology, including:
- Invention of TeMuS a high temperature refractory material
- Invention of a novel interlayer design for joining ceramics to metals
- Development of friction welding of aluminium to aluminium nitride for electronic heat sinks
- Development of microwave heating techniques for diffusion bonding alumina, silicon carbide and zirconia ceramics
- The devising of a method for producing hard ceramic coatings on fibrous thermal ceramics for combustion liners
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