By L.U.M. GmbH
High value ceramic materials occur in additive manufacturing, like DLP-printing, in separators for Lithium secondary batteries, in ultrafiltration membranes and ceramic water purification filters, in ceramic inks, in dental adhesives and in wear resistant coatings. Nanosized ceramic powders and nanoparticle suspensions have further applications. All can be characterized in terms of particle size distribution, particle density and particle dispersibility by various LUM instruments. Ceramic suspension separation stability is characterized either in real-time (LUMiReader PSA, LUMiReader X-Ray) or accelerated by analytical centrifugation in LUMiFuge and LUMiSizer. With the miniaturization of commercial electronic products and devices, the size of electronic components has become smaller than ever. BaTiO3 is widely used in electronic components, such as multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). Bio-inspired adhesive materials are applied in this context. The adhesive strengths of the used poly-copolymers by butt tensile tests is a typical appication for the centrifugal adhesion test analyzer LUMiFrac.
