Ceramics at TWI

Ceramics - innovation

Current Research and Inovation

TWI's Ceramics Group has been actively involved in a number of innovations and developments in ceramics technology, including:

• Invention of TeMuS a high temperature refractory material
• Invention of a novel interlayer design for joining ceramics to metals
• Development of friction welding of aluminium to aluminium nitride for electronic heat sinks
• Development of microwave heating techniques for diffusion bonding alumina, silicon carbide and zirconia ceramics
• The devising of a method for producing hard ceramic coatings on fibrous thermal ceramics for combustion liners

For more information please contact: ceramics@twi.co.uk