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Electrophoretic Deposition in Production of Ceramic Matrix Composites

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Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanomaterials

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Electrophoretic deposition has been known and exploited for decades; however, its use in production of ceramic matrix composites, in particular those reinforced with continuous fibres has been still very limited. This chapter addresses the challenges represented by this special group of materials. The following presents a general review of the research work in this field and, based on literature as well as our own results, draws a few conclusions on the use of electric-field assisted forming of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs).

The first part introduces ceramic composites, with discontinuous (particulate) and continuous reinforcement, and summarises the application fields, in which, particularly for the continuous reinforced composites, shaping represent major technological challenge. Although the properties of suspensions and the EPD parameters are presented in detail in other parts of this book, this chapter addresses the main requirements that need to be fulfilled in order to successfully form heterostructured deposits. To illustrate the validity or to stress the variety of the relationships, two particular systems were mostly addressed: alumina and silicon carbide, as representatives of oxide and non-oxide ceramics, both with nanosized or submicronsized particles. The main part of this chapter is devoted to one of the most demanding and complex ceramic materials: fibre fabric reinforced composites and, among them, silicon carbide fibre-reinforced silicon carbide ceramics.

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Acknowledgements

The work was financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency within the National Research Programme P2-0084, project No. J2-7506-01016 and within the PhD studies of Mrs. Katja König and Mr. Aljaž Iveković (prj. No 1000-05-310034 and 1000-08-310084). A part of the work was also supported by the European Communities under the Contract of Association between EURATOM and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia within the framework of the European Fusion Development agreement.

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Novak, S., König, K., Iveković, A. (2012). Electrophoretic Deposition in Production of Ceramic Matrix Composites. In: Dickerson, J., Boccaccini, A. (eds) Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanomaterials. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9730-2_8

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