Daikin Industries, Ltd.

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Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Science and Technology Agency

National Aerospace Laboratories of Science & Technology Agency

Tohru Hirano

Masayuki Niino

Toshio Hirai

Nobuhito Kuroishi

Junichi Teraki

Hirofumi Nishibayashi

Ryuzo Watanabe

Akio Suzuki

Nobuyuki Yatsuyanagi

Nobuhiro Sata

Shogi Kawachi

Kanichiro Sumiyoshi

Jun Ikeuchi

A novel metal/polymer base functionally gradient material comprising silver and a fluororesin in which the composition of silver and the fluororesin is continuously changed from one side to the other.

Fluororesin/metal base functionally gradient material

A method of producing a material having a layer of ceramic as a first component, a layer of a metal as a second component and an intermediate layer lying between said layers and including said first and second components in continuous gradient ratios so that the properties of the material may change continuous, including a step of forming said intermediate layer by igniting a powder mixture of metallic and nonmetallic constitutive elements of said ceramic component and said metal component so as to cause a synthetic reaction in the powder mixture.

Method of producing composite materials

The present invention relates to a method of producing a functionally grant material whose components and structure are continuously adjusted by the coating, plating and powder metallurgy techniques to change its function in turn and provide a method of producing a functionally gradient material superior in heat-resistance, corrosion-resistance and resistance to thermal fatigue by distributing a third component having a lower Young's modulus or formed of high-strength material sufficiently durable to the fracture strength among ceramics as a first component and metals or other ceramics as a second component to change the function.

Method of producing a functionally gradient material

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Sakai, Japan

Tohru Hirano