Advances in Ice-Templated and Freeze-Casted Ceramics

Abstract

Ice-templating, also known as freeze-casting, has become over the past 15 years a wellestablished materials processing route [...]

Ambient Pressure Drying of Freeze-Cast Ceramics from Aqueous Suspension

“…APD of freeze-cast ceramics based on common solvents, such as water, has not been achieved yet. Obviously, the research on ambient drying of freeze-cast ceramics is far from adequate, even though ceramics make up the majority of freeze-cast materials. , It is challenging to simply copy polymer’s APD paradigm to ceramics due to the inert surface chemistry of ceramic particles. The methods such as sol–gel aging or cross-linking by molecules are usually time-consuming and toxic or restricted by the low diffusion rate of molecular cross-linkers .…”