Ceramic Porous Material

A ceramic material is an inorganic non metallic often crystalline oxide nitride or carbide material.

Ceramic porous material.

It is also resistant to organic solvents. They withstand chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic environments. Porous ceramics can replace metal plastic or fiber based components providing equal or higher levels of performance and extending the useful component life under harsh conditions. These materials composed of at least two phases like solid ceramic phase and the gas filled porous phase the gas content of these pores usually regulates itself to the environment as an exchange of gas with the environment is possible through pore channels.

Up to 1000c for porous ceramic limited only by sealants gaskets and or hardware materials. Porous ceramics are categorized as those ceramics having high percentage porosity between 20 and 95. Uniquely porous these ceramic materials contain open cell structures that allow the free flow of liquid or gas. Some elements such as carbon or silicon may be considered ceramics ceramic materials are brittle hard strong in compression and weak in shearing and tension.

Ceramic foam is an important part of porous ceramics and the open cell type of ceramic foam which is a new type of highly porous ceramics has a three dimensional reticulated structure with connective pores resulting in great specific surface area high fluid contact efficiency and a small loss of fluid pressure 26 27. Custom coorstek porous ceramics can be tailored from 0 1 100 µm with precision tolerances and a variety of ceramic material options. In alkaline solutions porous ceramics are resistant up to ph9.