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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2013
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
The Texas A&m University System, College Station, TX (US);
Alvin A. Solomon, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Huthavahana S. Kuchibhotla, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Shripad T. Revankar, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Sean Marshall McDeavitt, Bryan, TX (US);
Jean Concetto Ragusa, College Station, TX (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
Abstract
A process of producing ceramic-ceramic composites, including but not limited to nuclear fuels, and composites capable of exhibiting increased thermal conductivities. The process includes milling a first ceramic material to produce a powder of spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material, and then co-milling particles of a second ceramic material with the spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material to cause the particles of the second ceramic material to form a coating on the spheroidized particles of the first material. The spheroidized particles coated with the particles of the second ceramic material are then compacted and sintered to form the ceramic-ceramic composite, in which the second ceramic material forms a continuous phase completely surrounding the spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material.