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Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ykk Corporation

Tohoku Techno Arch Co., Ltd.

Diavac Limited

Inoue Akihisa

Tsuyoshi Masumoto

Tadashi Yamaguchi

Katsutoshi Nosaki

Wakiwaka Hiroyuki

Igarashi Takanori

Yokoyama Yoshihiko

Ishikawa Tomohito

Kawai Yoshiaki

Motoe Yoshitsugu

Sugiyama Masaharu

Kameyama Motohiro

Makino Akihiro

Nakashima Koji

Ultrafine whiskery or columnar ceramic particles, a method for producing the ultrafine particles, and a sintered article obtained by sintering the ultrafine ceramic particles are disclosed. The ultrafine ceramic particles are produced by thermally melting a matrix alloy of a composition of Al--M.sup.1, wherein M.sup.1 stands for at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of Cr, Co, and Fe, or Al--M.sup.1 --M.sup.2, wherein M.sup.2 stands for at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of Au, Cu, Dy, Er, Ga, Ge, Gd, Hf, Ho, Lu, Mn, Mo, Nb, Nd, Ni, Pr, Re, Sb, Sc, Si, Sn, Ta, Tb, Ti, Tm, V, W, Y, Zn, or Zr, in a nitriding atmosphere containing nitrogen and causing the vaporized raw material to react with the nitrogen in the atmosphere. By this method, ultrafine composite particles or a mixture comprising ultrafine whiskery or columnar aluminum nitride particles and ultrafine particles of the metal, the intermetallic compound of the metal with aluminum, and the nitride ceramic of the metal are produced. The ultrafine particles thus obtained find extensive utility as sintering materials and dispersion materials, for example.

Composite ultrafine particles of nitrides, method for production and

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Inoue Akihisa