Owens-illinois, Inc.

Sandia Corporation

The United States of America As Represented by the United States

Howard L McCollister

Delbert E Day

Scott T Reed

Richard K Brow

Carol C Phifer

Norman L Boling

Paul L White

Ronald G Stone

Kenneth R Kormanyos

Paul R Wengert, Deceased

A glass ceramic composition, a glass ceramic-to-metal seal, and more specifically a hermetic glass ceramic-to-metal seal prepared by subjecting a glass composition comprising, by weight percent, SiO.sub.2 (65-80%), LiO.sub.2 (8-16%), Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 (2-8%), K.sub.2 O (1-8%), P.sub.2 O.sub.5 (1-5%), B.sub.2 O.sub.3 (0.5-7%), and ZnO (0-5%) to the following processing steps: 1) heating the glass composition in a belt furnace to a temperature sufficient to melt the glass and crystallize lithium phosphate, 2) holding at a temperature and for a time sufficient to create cristobalite nuclei, 3) cooling at a controlled rate and to a temperature to cause crystallization of lithium silicates and growth of cristobalite, and 4) still further cooling in stages to ambient temperature. This process produces a glass ceramic whose high coefficient of thermal expansion (up to 200.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C.) permits the fabrication of glass ceramic-to-metal seals, and particularly hermetic glass ceramic seals to nickel-based and stainless steel alloys and copper.

Method of processing 'BPS' glass ceramic and seals made therewith

Alkaline-earth lanthanoborate sealing-glass compositions containing CaO, La.sub.2 O.sub.3, B.sub.2 O.sub.3, TiO.sub.2 and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in various combinations of mole-% are provided. These sealing-glass compositions are useful for forming hermetic glass-to-metal seals with titanium and titanium alloys that have a high aqueous durability for component or device applications requiring exposure to moisture, water or body fluids. Particular applications of the titanium sealing-glass compositions include forming glass-to-metal seals for lithium batteries and implanted biomedical devices (e.g. batteries, pacemakers, defibrillators, pumps).

Titanium sealing glasses and seals formed therefrom

Barium lanthanoborate sealing-glass compositions are provided comprising various combinations (in terms of mole-%) of boron oxide (B.sub.2 O.sub.3), barium oxide (BaO), lanthanum oxide (La.sub.2 O.sub.3), and at least one other oxide selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3), calcium oxide (CaO), lithium oxide (Li.sub.2 O), sodium oxide (Na.sub.2 O), silicon dioxide (SiO.sub.2), or titanium dioxide (TiO.sub.2). These sealing-glass compositions are useful for forming hermetic glass-to-metal seals with titanium and titanium alloys having an improved aqueous durability and favorable sealing characteristics. Examples of the sealing-glass compositions are provided having coefficients of thermal expansion about that of titanium or titanium alloys, and with sealing temperatures less than about 900.degree. C., and generally about 700.degree.-800.degree. C. The barium lanthanoborate sealing-glass compositions are useful for components and devices requiring prolonged exposure to moisture or water, and for implanted biomedical devices (e.g. batteries, pacemakers, defibrillators, pumps).

Sealing glasses for titanium and titanium alloys

A glass ceramic composition prepared by subjecting a glass composition comprising, by weight, 65-80% SiO.sub.2, 8-16%, Li.sub.2 O, 2-8% , Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, 1-8% K.sub.2 O, 1-5% P.sub.2 O.sub.5 and 1.5-7% B.sub.2 O.sub.3, to the following processing steps of heating the glass composition to a temperature sufficient to crystallize lithium metasilicate therein, holding the glass composition at a temperature and for a time period sufficient to dissolve the lithium metasilicate therein thereby creating cristobalite nucleii, cooling the glass composition and maintaining the composition at a temperature and for a time period sufficient to recrystallize lithium metasilicate therein, and thermally treating the glass composition at a temperature and for a time period sufficient to cause growth of cristobalite and further crystallization of lithium metasilicate producing a glass ceramic composition having a specific thermal expansion coefficient and products containing said composition.

Glass ceramic seals to inconel

Disclosed is a process of making a glass article containing a thin surface film antireflective coating made by providing a dispersion containing at least one metalloorganic compound in solution, depositing a thin coating of such dispersion on the glass substrate, heating the film to drive off the solvent and to decompose the organic components, thus forming a glass film from the remaining inorganic oxide components, further heating the glass film layer to cause phase separation thereof, and thereafter etching and leaching such film to dissolve out preferentially one of the phases of the phase-separated glass, leaving a skeletonized surface film having a graded refractive index; and products resulting from such process.

Process of making glass articles having antireflective coatings and

A solid electrolyte composite is provided which is suitable for use as the separating member between a sodium reservoir source and a sulfur reservoir source in a sodium-sulfur battery; the solid electrolyte composite is manufactured by providing a membrane of a crystalline ionic conductive sodium polyaluminate on a portion of a porous, anhydrous crystalline supporting body consisting of alpha-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3. The sodium polyaluminate is initially applied in the form of a precursor which is then subsequently heated to form the ionic conductive crystalline sodium polyaluminate membrane.

Method for forming solid electrolyte composite

Disclosed are low expansion, chemically resistant, ceramic articles containing keatite as the principal crystalline phase. The articles are prepared from compositions in the Li.sub.2 O.Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.SiO.sub.2 field. In preparing this ceramic article, a glass having the desired composition is formed into the appropriate shape by molding the molten glass, compaction and sintering of glass particles or by other conventional glass and ceramic forming processes. The article thus formed is then crystallized to keatite solid solution by an appropriate heat treatment followed by acid leaching in a strong but diluted aqueous acid to produce a ceramic material having the hydroxy aluminosilicate crystalline structure. The hydroxy aluminosilicate ceramic article is then thermally dehydrated to produce a ceramic article containing keatite as a crystalline phase together with mullite with or without the presence of other phases such as amorphous or glassy SiO.sub.2, quartz and nucleants.

Ceramic materials containing keatite

Disclosed is a method of producing hard glass-ceramics from a melt of basalt enriched with one or more of CaO, MgO and SiO.sub.2 to achieve defined ratios of certain oxides in the batch, cooling the melt to a glass and thermally in situ crystallizing the glass to a highly crystalline glass-ceramic product containing a diopside solid solution as the principal phase.

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Howard L McCollister