Quick Summary
• There’s a lot of crossover between ceramics and additive manufacturing (AM). Now, we just need to get the two industries to talk to each other more. It was nice to...
Additional Context
There’s a lot of crossover between ceramics and additive manufacturing (AM). Now, we just need to get the two industries to talk to each other more. It was nice to see this happening at the recent Ceramics Expo in Cleveland, Ohio.
Presentations and Panel Discussions
Ceramics have an obvious home in commercial and artistic applications, but these brittle materials are also corrosion- and heat-resistant, which means they can be used in more extreme environments, like fuel cells and hypersonics. At the event, there was a panel discussion on this very topic, moderated by Sinto Advanced Ceramics USA Business Development Manager Dave Diegel.
Seth Shuster, a research scientist at Free Form Fibers, explained the company’s chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, which received government fundin