Fabrication of SiC-based Ceramic Microstructures from Preceramic Polymers with Sacrificial Templates and Softlithography Techniques

Yoon, Tae‐Ho; Hong, Lan-Young; Kim, Dong‐Pyo

doi:10.5772/8187

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“…Various processing techniques have been used to achieve macroporosity in ceramic materials in general, and in PDCs in particular, e.g., direct foaming, replica methods, as well as the use of porogens (sacrificial fillers) [13,25,26]. As for specific applications, the presence of ordered porosity is required, and several approaches have been used to prepare ordered macroporous PDCs, such as lithography [27], additive manufacturing [28,29,30,31], or freeze casting [16,32,33]. Recently, the use of sacrificial fillers to generate ordered porosity in PDCs was proposed.…”

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Combining Soft Polysilazanes with Melt-Shear Organization of Core–Shell Particles: On the Road to Polymer-Templated Porous Ceramics

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The preparation of ordered macroporous SiCN ceramics has attracted significant interest and is an attractive area for various applications, e.g., in the fields of catalysis, gas adsorption, or membranes. Non-oxidic ceramics, such as SiCN, own a great stability based on the covalent bonds between the containing elements, which leads to interesting properties concerning resistance and stability at high temperature. Their peculiar properties have become more and more important for a manifold of applications, like catalysis or separation processes, at high temperatures. Within this work, a feasible approach for the preparation of ordered porous materials by taking advantage of polymer-derived ceramics is presented. To gain access to free-standing films consisting of porous ceramic materials, the combination of monodisperse organic polymer-based colloids with diameters of 130 nm and 180 nm featuring a processable preceramic polymer is essential. For this purpose, the tailored design of hybrid organic/inorganic particles featuring anchoring sites for a preceramic polymer in the soft shell material is developed. Moreover, polymer-based core particles are used as sacrificial template for the generation of pores, while the preceramic shell polymer can be converted to the ceramic matrix after thermal treatment. Two different routes for the polymer particles, which can be obtained by emulsion polymerization, are followed for covalently linking the preceramic polysilazane Durazane1800 (Merck, Germany): (i) Free radical polymerization and (ii) atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) conditions. These hybrid hard core/soft shell particles can be processed via the so-called melt-shear organization for the one-step preparation of free-standing particle films. A major advantage of this technique is the absence of any solvent or dispersion medium, enabling the core particles to merge into ordered particle stacks based on the soft preceramic shell. Subsequent ceramization of the colloidal crystal films leads to core particle degradation and transformation into porous ceramics with ceramic yields of 18–54%.

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